ECS helps in design & deployment of an organizational policy to develop and continually strengthen mutually beneficial relationships with strategic Vendors in order to increase the quality of products and services offered to the customer.

The objectives are to achieve PPM levels and ultimately zero defects in the material and components received from the Vendors, while continually maintaining required delivery levels. The ECS Vendor Management helps a company traverse the entire ground from the adversarial, inspection-oriented, crisis management approach to achieving flow in the in-bound value stream characterized by partnerships, assurance orientation and synchronous, sequenced, multi-model, multi-locational supplies.

The approach would cover aspects related to vendor classifications, vendor appraisals, vendor quality assessments, share of business models and extension of the lean production system to vendors. The ultimate aim being that of securing supplies to match the order fulfillment cycle.