{"id":162,"date":"2005-11-16T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-16T23:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2005\/11\/16\/working-with-vendors-part-1\/"},"modified":"2008-04-07T20:38:29","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T04:38:29","slug":"working-with-vendors-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/2005\/11\/working-with-vendors-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Working with Vendors &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All of us come in contact with Vendors or Resellers. Many of us don&#8217;t give much thought to managing our vendors. I think that is a mistake.<\/p>\n<p>Vendor management is something that you should add to your list as a CAD Manager.  Here are some ideas about VM.<\/p>\n<p>Identify which vendors to manage&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>First make a list of all the vendors you use. Write down everyone, big and small. Then go through the list and sort it by purchasing dollar volumn.<\/p>\n<p>Take the top five and add them to your list of vendors to manage.<\/p>\n<p>Now sort them by software seat count.<\/p>\n<p>Take the top 5 and add them to your list.  Remove duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>Now sort them by productivity enhancement.  It may be a small tool that does one thing that save tons of time.<\/p>\n<p>Take the top 5 and add them to your list.  Remove duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>Now sort the list with the troublemakers, non performers, price gougers, con artists and &#8220;used car&#8221; salesman at the top.<\/p>\n<p>Take the top 5 and add them to your list.  Remove duplicates.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good starting point for which vendors you need to manage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All of us come in contact with Vendors or Resellers. Many of us don&#8217;t give much thought to managing our vendors. I think that is a mistake. Vendor management is something that you should add to your list as a CAD Manager. Here are some ideas about VM. Identify which vendors to manage&#8230; First make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vendors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caddmanager.com\/CMB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}