vendor management best practices

 This paper introduces a supplier evaluation framework and process that focuses on building sustainable supplier relationships based upon core values.

 10 strategic sourcing best practices that can help ensure success.

 Outsourcing Vendor Management defines outsourcing, discusses the latest trends in the outsourcing industry and then defines vendor management and presents a vendor governance model.

 This presentation discusses the top ten legal issues in outsourcing contracts

This paper studies how buyers’ technical expertise and supplier governance skills shape their satisfaction with suppliers' performance i.e. price, quality, and cooperativeness of products or services bought.

This paper explores the relationship between relational governance and formal contracts in creating better supplier performance in outsourcing.

Can Information Technology, which is critical to an organization's success, deliver without a sourcing capability? The authors argue that not only is a sourcing strategy critical to IT value but also that a successful strategy requires a focus away from cost to competency.

The authors argue that implementing an information communication platform that promotes secure knowledge exchange between client and service provider is critical to engendering trust which is the foundation for outsourcing success. This paper presents a best practice framework for client-service provider communications.

This paper discusses the key learning/best practices, that lead to high performance outsourcing, gleaned from the masters i.e. executives who have been there, done that and can claim success in the world of outsourcing services! 

This research paper discusses the outsourcing life cycle, what should be outsourced, and best practices for data center outsourcing.