Transcription of EVALUATION OF SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE
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1 EVALUATION OF SUPPLIER PERFORMANCE - the case of Volvo Car Corporation and its module suppliers Competitive paper Peter Fredriksson1 and Lars-Erik Gadde Department of Industrial Marketing Chalmers University of Technology SE-412 96 Gothenburg, Sweden Tel. +46 31 772 10 00 Introduction Purchasing and suppliers are of major strategic importance to most companies today. This is because a substantial amount of the resources used by a company are made available through its suppliers. Purchases from suppliers account for more than half of total costs for most companies and in some industries, such as electronics, telecommunications, construction, and automotive, this portion is normally substantially higher (Gadde and H kansson 2001).
other firms. It was shown also that this strategic approach had a positive impact on buyer-seller relationships and, finally, supplier evaluation systems had a positive effect on the buying firm’s financial performance. Aim and scope of the paper Evaluation of supplier performance is thus a prerequisite for supplier development. Most
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