1. What recommendations would you make to John Wolf with respect to structuring the supplier relationship process for the Wolf Motors dealership network?
First, I would recommend that WM engages in centralized buying for as many products as possible. By purchasing larger quantities and varieties of goods from fewer sources, WM can increase its purchasing power. This will allow the company to negotiate lower parts and materials costs with its supplier, which it can then pass along to its customers in the form of lower prices.
Second, I would recommend that WM utilize electronic data interchange (EDI) technology to ease communication efforts between its individual dealerships and its various suppliers. This will allow the company to exchange
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How might purchasing policies and procedures differ as the dealerships purchase different types of service parts and materials (for example, lubricants versus genuine GM parts)?
As stated above, I recommend that WM reduce the number of suppliers and engage in centralized buying for as many products as possible. By limiting its number of suppliers, WM will be able to standardize more of its purchasing policies and procedures across the various dealerships and among its vendors. Also, by reducing the number of suppliers involved, WM will be able to focus more on souring products from vendors that meet the company’s price, quality and delivery standards, which will help ensure better after-sale customer service and satisfaction.
However, it is important to note that even with fewer vendors, WM’s purchasing policies and procedures will differ based on the size and sophistication of the supplier involved in the transaction. For larger suppliers like GM, WM will want to rely more heavily on detailed contracts that clearly stipulate the expectations of the company and the implications that will result from unfulfilled expectations. For smaller suppliers, the company will want to soften the dialog used in its contracts to avoid scaring potential vendors away. By using less threatening language, the company will be able to build trust with these smaller vendors and ensure their future cooperation in the timely delivery of quality
Any time the company is looking into software project, there are areas associated with risk such as cost, time and relationship with suppliers. However, for Harley-Davidson, “collocation of suppliers with production facilities and their integration into company’s development process was the essential part of long-term relationship development”. Through a continued focus on collaboration and strong supplier relationships, the company could position itself to achieve strategic objectives and deliver cost and quality improvement over the long-term. Since, at that time company had no centralized system in place to handle relationship with suppliers and consequently, most of company’s time was spent on supplier management activities. For example, reviewing inventory, expediting and data entry. Furthermore, each supplier had different information systems for “Maintenance, Repair, and Operations (MRO), Original Equipment (OE), Parts and Accessories (P&A), and General Merchandising (GM) purchasing activities”. The systems, already provided by supplier, had to be further modified to meet individual need at each location, such as “the OE system at Harley-Davidson’s York, Pennsylvania site was different from the OE system in Kansas City”. However, due to long-standing tradition of gradual change implementation and focus on quality, quick transitions were unwelcome and did not come easy for the company. The size of the project determined how much risk was involved in terms of cost, time, and supplier relationships. The idea of switching to global purchasing system was seen as a threat not only in supplies and production flow interruption, but also in damaged dealer/customer relationships and lost sales. Furthermore, failure of the sy...
Metalcraft’s scorecard was developed to address control issues in the supply-chain. The scorecard was a tool that provided Melalcraft a single reference point on supplier performance over a period of time along three dimensions: quality, timing and delivery. There were several business functions that utilized the scorecard; buyers, plant engineers, supplier development engineers, suppliers and various other users within the Metalcraft organization. The scorecard was also used to evaluate supplier performance at both the individual plant level as well as the aggregate supplier level. The scorecard classified supplier performance metrics with color recommendations indicating the degree in which Metalcraft would base future sourcing based on their “color” quality rating.
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