Supplier Performance
Find it: Management → Parts Management → Supplier Scorecard (Analytics group).
Sound familiar?
- "We keep ordering from the same supplier because we always have."
- "Was it supplier A or B whose deliveries kept slipping last quarter?"
- "Cheapest quote won again, and we paid for it in delays."
Without scorecards, supplier choice is a habit, not a decision.
The Problem
Purchase history holds the evidence: who delivers on time, whose parts pass inspection, whose prices creep up. But it sits in inboxes and invoices, so procurement decisions run on familiarity and the loudest sales email. Chronic late deliverers keep winning quotes, and the cost shows up as downtime somewhere else.
What OpexMX Supplier Performance Does
Turns purchase history into a scorecard per supplier, so vendor decisions have numbers behind them.
Scorecard Metrics
- On-time delivery: promised date versus actual receipt
- Quality: defect and rejection rates on received goods
- Price trend: how unit prices move over time
- Overall score: the combined rating, on a scale from Poor to Excellent
Roll-Up Dashboard
Summary cards show total active suppliers, total spend, and average on-time, quality, and overall scores, so you see vendor health at a glance and can drill into any supplier.
Recalculate on Demand
Scores are computed from receipt and inspection data. After new deliveries land, recalculate to refresh the standings before the next purchasing decision.
How It Works
- Open Parts Management → Supplier Scorecard.
- Review the summary cards for overall vendor health.
- Drill into a supplier to see the metrics behind its score.
- Recalculate after new receipts, then decide with the numbers.
Who Uses This?
| Role | What They Care About |
|---|---|
| Procurement | Evidence for renewals, splits, and switches |
| Storeroom | Suppliers whose lead times they can trust |
| Quality | Defect trends by vendor |
| Management | Spend concentrated on reliable vendors |
Pro Tips
- Pair scorecards with quarterly supplier reviews; bring the numbers, not anecdotes.
- A fair price from a 95% on-time supplier beats a discount from a chronic laggard.
- Watch price trend on sole-source parts; that is where creep hides.
- Give struggling suppliers the trend line and a target; most respond.
Integrations
- Suppliers: every supplier record gets its scorecard
- Purchase Orders: receipts and dates feed on-time and quality metrics
- Inventory Optimization: measured lead times sharpen reorder points