Building supplier relationships has grown in significant importance over the last two years.

COVID19 disrupted Supply Chains all across the world.

Businesses scrambled to ensure they still had certainty of supply.

What they didn’t realise was that they were not necessarily the Customer of Choice for that Supplier any longer.

I came across Suppeco a few months ago and I wanted to bring them onto the Podcast to find out, from a tech perspective, how they can help us Supply Chain and Procurement Pros build more collaborative relationships within the Supply Chain.

They way, we can maintain our status as Customer of Choice and have better supply from the Supply Chain.

Check out the timestamps below to the relevant section of the podcast. My advice… listen to all of it.

• 00:00 Background to Sheldon and what he did pre-Suppeco


• 00:50 Difficulty driving value out of relationships


• 01:11 Using Excel/PPT to build out Relationships


• 02:00 The start of Suppeco


• 03:17 The issue of managing Supplier Relationships


• 05:52 Building Suppeco


• 08:15 What Suppeco is


• 10:11 Using live data for insights not reports


• 14:40 How do we create KPIs/SLAs


• -16:14 How to get suppliers to use the platform


• 1930 - Awesome Insights into Suppeco


• 20:55 - User Experience matters with Procurement Tech

Check out Suppeco here

Connect with Sheldon here

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