Glossary · Business & Sourcing
What Is Supplier Scorecard?
A supplier scorecard is a periodic, structured assessment of a manufacturer's performance against agreed measures — on-time delivery, quality rejections, response time, documentation accuracy and complaint resolution. It converts an impression of a supplier into a trend that can be discussed with them.
Why it matters when you source
Scorecards are how a brand with several suppliers keeps them comparable, and how a single supplier gets told something specific rather than something vague. Even a simple five-metric sheet changes the tone of the relationship from opinion to evidence.
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