Automated AVL: From manual supplier scorecards to data-powered decisions
Managing an Approved Vendors List often feels like an uphill battle. Instead of driving quality, you are stuck chasing suppliers for data, digging through fragmented emails, and manually calculating performance scores. This manual approach doesn’t just consume time, it also creates strategic blindness.
It is time to transform your AVL from a static spreadsheet into an automated command center. Keep reading to know why your team needs Automated AVLs, a tool that becomes the single source of truth to make real time, data-driven decisions.
Why is your current manual AVL not working?
While many organizations still rely on spreadsheets for their Approved Vendors Lists, this manual process traps SQEs in a reactive cycle of data entry. A process that is holding you back due to:
- Strategic blindness: Manual updates take time, resulting in scorecards with old data by the time you finish calculating. This lack of real-time visibility, leaves you to make decisions based on non updated information.
- Increased data silos: When important documentation and data lives in different email chains and folders, you create data silos that make it impossible to collaborate effectively with your team.
- High risk of human error: Calculating complex weighted metrics manually is prone to data entry errors or broken formulas. Potentially leading to inaccurate scorecards, a mistake that can jeopardize your supply chain quality and damage vendor relationships.
- Compliance gaps: Tracking every vendor manually can lead to complex audits and time-consuming updates that can easily overlook the expiration of crucial certifications and regulatory compliance.
From data-entry to data-powered vendor lists
In order to achieve proactive supply quality management, your AVLs need to transition from data-entry manual spreadsheets into data-powered dashboards. Here we show you how Kiuey’s Supply Quality Manager can transform your process:
| Manual AVL | Kiuey’s Supply Quality Manager | |
| Visibility | Audit results must be updated manually, a time-consuming task that keeps your team from real-time visibility. | Dashboards update as soon as audits results are ready. Leading to real-time visibility for your whole team. |
| Traceability | Linking a specific quality failure to every vendor’s scorecard requires digging through several files and emails. | Connect every audit finding or failed inspection to the vendor’s scorecard and guarantee closed loops. |
| Scalability | Eveytime your supply chain adds new vendors, you must update your list. A task that requires much effort and time if done manually. | Growing your vendor’s list is possible with a system that creates flexible checklists and tracks every single audit. Updating your scorecards automatically. |
| Team impact | This manual process pushes your team to do tedious tasks without end. Increasing burn-out and missing opportunities to work on continuous improvement. | With a tool that leverages the tedious parts of the process, your team can focus on what really matters: make data-driven decisions and work on continuos improvement. |
Real-time, data-driven AVLs with Kiuey
Make manual scorecards a thing of the past with Kiuey’s AVL Supplier Manager, the tool where you can manage and validate supplier compliance and performance in an easy, efficient and automated way.
However, to truly take your Automated AVL to the next level, you need Kiuey’s Supply Audits Manager, the module that allows you to schedule audits, track corrective actions, and guarantee supplier compliance, all in just one platform. It’s time to focus on what truly matters. Schedule a free demo today!
