Introductory Notes

The Supplier Agreement Management process area involves the following:

  • Determining the type of acquisition that will be used for the products to be acquired

  • Selecting suppliers

  • Establishing and maintaining agreements with suppliers

  • Executing the supplier agreement

  • Accepting delivery of acquired products

  • Transitioning acquired products to the project

This process area primarily applies to the acquisition of products and product components that are delivered to the project's customer. To minimize risks to the project, this process area can also be applied to the acquisition of significant products and product components not delivered to the project's customer (for example, development tools and test environments).

This process area does not directly address arrangements in which the supplier is integrated into the project team (for example, integrated product teams). Typically, these situations are handled by other processes or functions, possibly external to the project, though some of the specific practices of this process area may be useful in managing the formal agreement with such a supplier.

Suppliers may take many forms depending on business needs, including in-house vendors (i.e., vendors that are in the same organization but are external to the project), fabrication capabilities and laboratories, and commercial vendors. (See the definition of "supplier" in the glossary.)

A formal agreement is any legal agreement between the organization (representing the project) and the supplier. This agreement may be a contract, a license, or a memorandum of agreement. The acquired product is delivered to the project from the supplier and becomes part of the products delivered to the customer. (See the definition of "product" in the glossary.)

Refer to the Integrated Supplier Management process area for more information about analyzing sources of products and monitoring selected supplier processes and work products.



CMMI (c) Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
CMMI (c) Guidelines for Process Integration and Product Improvement
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Year: 2006
Pages: 378

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