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Reff Procurement Assesment - 08
Reff Procurement Assesment - 08
Performance key
Performance 2007/08
KPI Achieved
The company’s policy is to agree payment terms with suppliers and to pay on time
according to those agreed terms. In the absence of alternative agreement, the policy is to
make payment not more than 30 days after receipt of a valid invoice. The creditor ratio,
expressed in days, between the amount invoiced by suppliers during the year and the
amount owed to trade creditors as 31 March 2008 was 18 days.
30
25 27
Creditor days ratio
20 21
19
18 18
15
10
0
2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08
Performance 2007/08
KPI Achieved
Performance 2007/08
KPI Achieved
Performance 2007/08
KPI Achieved
All major suppliers are screened using Achilles Utilities Vendor Database, Verify and are
subject to annual D&B (Dunn & Bradstreet) checks.
In addition all top 150 suppliers are incorporated within our Supplier Performance
Management process. Suppliers performance is scored against 18 performance factors
including cost and time management, health and safety, environmental performance,
scores range from one being excellent to five being poor, a single score can then be
calculated for each supplier and this is then taken into consideration when the supplier
review occurs.
2.05
2
2.00
1.99
Contractors and
1.95 Consultants only
1.95 1.95
1.94 1.94
1.92 All Suppliers
1.9
1.9
1.87
1.85 1.86
1.85
1.82
1.8 1.81
1.80
1.75
1 poor
5 excellent
1.7
July - Sept 06 Oct 06 - Jan 07 Feb-Apr 07 May-Aug 07 Sep-Dec07 Jan-Mar 08 Apr-Jun 08
Performance 2007/08
KPI Achieved