In today's competitive global economy, we know that strong relationships with our suppliers are more important than ever to our ability to meet our own and our customers' needs.

Our preferred suppliers are those that work with us in a professional, ethical, competitive, and cost-effective manner consistent with SMARTECH policies, procedures, and business objectives. We believe this type of supplier relationship encourages use of supply chain best practices and adds value for all involved in the process.

In evaluating potential suppliers, SMARTECH considers delivery price, reliability of supplier, operational costs, and after-sales support. We procure goods and services only from financially stable, technically qualified, and reliable sources. The following resources give potential suppliers the information they need to do business with us while meeting sales, delivery, and invoicing obligations.

The key success factors to our supply chain operations are:

• An operational structure which permits prompt approvals and decision making
• Building and maintaining excellent relationships throughout the vendor community
• Early commitment to long lead items
• Strong engagement with vendors at the proposal stage
• Forward planning - looking and booking ahead
• Pro-active expediting (desk and field), including extensive use of the support office network, resident inspectors and frequency of management visibility and visits
• Our procurement benchmarking database where we maintain the latest best prices
• Highly experienced team
• Values driven behaviors in everything we do

SMARTECH works with approved vendor lists from our clients. In order to know you better, we invite you to register with us by contacting us through: supplier@smartech-solutions.net

Companies supplying goods and services to SMARTECH are required to be registered and pre-qualified with us.

Our qualification process assesses suppliers’ capabilities to support SMARTECH projects and ensures they meet the following required criteria:

• Safety and compliance standards
• Quality standards
• Technical competencies
• Organizational structure
• Cumulative experience

Our vendor management team are dedicated to working alongside suppliers to provide a responsive and positive experience during the on-boarding process.

There will be a preliminary assessment and if your company is found to have the relevant technical, quality and order execution capability, you will be invited to register on our supplier portal during one of our periodical invitation cycles.