JaxWorks Small Business Spreadsheet Factory

Since 1996, JaxWorks has offered a suite of Free Excel workbooks and spreadsheets, and associated MS Word, PDF and HTML
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- Suite of online calculators, including, breakeven analysis, productivity analysis, business evaluation;
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- and payroll analysis.
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Vendor Evaluation Analysis

For

Your Business, Inc.

How can the small business owner objectively evaluate the various
advantages and disadvantages of each vendor? One method is this form
that evaluates each supplier on key purchasing variables.
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Step 1 - Criteria.
Assign weights to each criteria to reflect its relative importance to your business.
Criteria
Quality =
Price =
Prompt Delivery =
Service =
Support =
Total

Weight
35
30
20
10
5
100

Step 2 - Grading scale for each criteria

Quality

Number of acceptable lots from vendor divided by total

number of lots from vendor.

Price

Lowest quoted price of all vendors divided by vendor X.

Prompt Delivery

Number of ontime deliveries from vendor divided by total

number of deliveries by vendor.

Service

A subjective evaluation of the variety of services offered by

each vendor.

Support

A subjective evaluation of the advice and assistance

provided by each vendor.

Step 3 - Compute a weighted score for each vendor

VENDOR 1
Criteria

Quality =
Acceptable Lots =
Total Lots =

Price =
Lowest Quote =
Vendor 1 Quote =

Weight

Grade

Weighted Score
(Weight X Grade)

35
9
10

0.90

31.50

30
12.50
12.50

1.00

30.00

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Delivery =
Ontime =
Total =

Service =
Satisfied =
Total =

Support =
Requests =
Total =

20
10
10

1.00

20.00

10
8
10

0.80

8.00

5
5
5

1.00

5.00

94.50

VENDOR 2
Criteria

Quality =
Acceptable Lots =
Total Lots =

Price =
Lowest Quote =
Vendor 1 Quote =

Weight

Grade

Weighted Score
(Weight X Grade)

35
8
10

0.80

28.00

30
12.50
13.50

0.93

27.78

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Delivery =

20

0.80

16.00

10
8
10

0.80

8.00

5
4
5

0.80

4.00

Ontime =

Total =

10

Service =
Satisfied =
Total =

Support =
Requests =
Total =

83.78

VENDOR 3
Weight

Grade

Weighted Score
(Weight X Grade)

35
7
10

0.70

24.50

30
12.50
12.50

1.00

30.00

20
6
10

0.60

12.00

10
7
10

0.70

7.00

5
1

0.20

1.00

Requests =
Total =

Criteria

Quality =
Acceptable Lots =
Total Lots =

Price =
Lowest Quote =
Vendor 1 Quote =

Delivery =
Ontime =
Total =

Service =
Satisfied =
Total =

Support =

74.50

Based on this analysis you should purchase from the highest vendor rating. Which is =
94.50

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For

Your Business, Inc.

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