Our supplier data management is embarrassing
Our quality team has their own supplier files in one system, purchasing keeps theirs somewhere else, and sustainability maintains a completely separate list that nobody else has access to. We can't even agree on how many active suppliers we have because every department counts differently depending on what they consider "active." Last week leadership asked for a supplier risk report and I spent a full day just reconciling data across all three sources before I could even start the actual analysis. Different naming conventions, duplicate entries, missing fields everywhere. By the time I had something usable half the day was gone and I hadn't even started writing. Please tell me this isn't just us.
Posted Sep 11, 2026, 3:31 PM UTC
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