Originally Posted by bernievn

The intensive effort involved in Supplier Performance Measurement is a major hurdle for some procurement professionals. As a result they sometimes give up on the leading practice purely because they do not have the resourses / time to do this.

It seems that quite a few companies are now instructing suppliers to measure themselves and then report back to the buying company on this.

Is this a workable solution? What if the supplier is dishonest about their performance?