July 26, 2024

How to Build a Strong Vendor Program

In this column, the author provides steps to building a strong vendor program to ensure food safety and quality, including identifying and evaluating potential suppliers, selecting (that is, approving or rejecting suppliers) and initiating the supplier relationship, and assessing supplier performance.

A strong Vendor program is an important link in the chain.

Richard Stier

Food Technology Magazine

Vendor Management

Understand the elements of a strong vendor program, including identifying and evaluating potential suppliers, selecting and initiating the supplier relationship, and assessing supplier performance.
Technical Capabilities

Learn what top technical capabilities to look for when assessing a supplier.
Supply Diversification

Gain insight into why diversifying supply sources is good for business and food safety.

In the wake of the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, it is a good time to review the importance of building and reinforcing your supply chain. Supply chain is something that the average person typically never thinks about, but thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine, a grounded container ship in the Suez Canal, and the Houthis terrorist group launching attacks on shipping in the Red Sea, supply chain has become an integral part of the nightly news. As the media has reported, each of these events has added costs to shipping, and …

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Authors

Richard Stier Food Scientist

Richard F. Stier is a consulting food scientist with international experience in food safety (HACCP), food plant sanitation, quality systems, process optimization, GMP compliance, and food microbiology (rickstier4@aol.com).