Conducting Supplier Satisfaction Research – Introduction

As a key Stakeholder Group, your Suppliers are crucial in enabling you to develop the products/services to better meet your customers’ requirements.  Suppliers can range anywhere from Transactional to Strategic, from Exclusive to Shared and more and more frequently are being considered pivotal to enable a company to deliver its business plans. Given the growing importance of suppliers, it is becoming increasingly relevant to understand their views and gather their feedback. In an increasingly competitive environment, to have strong, positive, collaborative relationships with your key suppliers is becoming a strategic imperative and key competitive advantage. Suppliers often have choices: who they work with, who they invest with, who they chose to develop strategic relationships with. The most successful companies often have the most successful supplier relationships.  But how do you know how successful your supplier relationships are, without some form of measurement.

Conscious of the maxim that “you shouldn’t mark your own homework”, engaging FOTP Research, a specialist B2B research company, as an independent third party to work with you, is the best way forward.

We will work with you to:

  • Understand your requirements
  • Develop the survey
  • Conduct the supplier satisfaction research
  • Analyse the data and
  • Present the insights

This is the most efficient and effective method of undertaking independent and objective Supplier Satisfaction Research. This can then be expanded into a tracking survey, to measure change/progress on an on-going and regular basis.