Achilles provides supplier management services that are used by companies throughout the industry, including the power generation, transmission and distribution, nuclear, water, telecom and gas industries.
Through a series of inter-related services, Achilles can provides buyers with a supplier information system for identifying and selecting potential suppliers, through to pre-qualifying, evaluating and performance monitoring them. Each an important stage towards continuous management of risk throughout the supply chain.
Achilles’ supplier management services improve the efficiency of the procurement cycle while promoting health and safety, environmental management and wider corporate responsibility in the supply chain.
While these services offer a valuable source of current and potential suppliers, in these sectors, it effectively provides a single focus point for the collection and sharing of supplier information, reducing costs, time and administrative workload.
Achilles’ business model is based upon creating communities of organisations with a common supply chain. The concept is then to standardise the process of supplier sourcing by implementing a common industry approach. Governed by a Steering Group the community comprises representatives from all purchasing organisations.
The supplier management services, allied with Achilles’ neutral stance, make the company a trusted partner for more than 550 of the world’s largest companies, and for more than 32,000 suppliers registered around the globe.
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