Today’s Procurement and Supplier Development professionals are constantly challenged to manage supplier risk while meeting aggressive purchasing goals. COSi partners with procurement departments seeking to develop or enhance their training programs to improve supplier performance and mitigate risk.

COSi’s Supplier Excellence Program is a 12-month step by step practical education program designed to rapidly improve the performance of small and mid-sized suppliers. It is based on a powerful combination of management best practices and workplace engagement techniques commonly used by the most successful companies. This program has proven to be very effective across a wide array of industries.

A Win-Win for suppliers and procurement teams

By enrolling in the COSi program, suppliers will transform their companies into creative, innovative, performance-driven businesses. They will be in a stronger position to:

• Meet and exceed capacity expectations

• Consistently meet or exceed quality standards

• Deliver on-time

• Embrace continuous improvement

• Control and reduce costs

• Remain financially stable

• And as a result, procurement departments are motivated to reward these suppliers with larger contracts