IODI Segmentation and Scorecard

For the past year, you have been the Plastic Components as a Commodity $($Category$)$ Team Leader at InterOffice & Design, Inc. $($IODI$),$ a $$1$ billion office furniture company. Tony, the Director of Sourcing, has been impressed with your strategy to segment suppliers and also how you developed a supplier scorecard for your suppliers. Tony has now given you responsibility for the Packaging and Wood Surface commodities as well. Tony is excited to see your strategies for the next year for all your commodities. You have asked your team to segment these suppliers and develop scorecards for these commodities. Please see the Excel file for the data on these suppliers.

Consider what you have learned about the need for supply chains to continue to increase value for IODI and its customers, supplier segmentation strategies, supplier consolidation $($reduction$),$ and supplier continuous improvement plans.

In the excel file, you will find IOTA's annual spend with each supplier and each supplier's segment and scorecard rating. Please answer the questions in the excel file. Note that suppliers who are small parts injection molders cannot produce large parts, and large part suppliers cannot produce small parts.