Supplier Self Assessment

This tool represents a framework that companies can utilize to conduct a self-assessment of how much progress they have made in developing lean supply chain management capabilities. In addition, it can be used to establish future performance targets and identify further improvement opportunities.

The Self-Assessment Tool identifies five capability levels and defines the lean supply chain management attributes for each enabling practice at each one of these five capability levels. The tool provides, for each overarching practice, diagnostic questions, lean indicators and potential metrics.

The tool is presented in a user-friendly Excel format, which provides an automated self-scoring feature that generates summary charts based on the self-scoring results and future improvement targets.