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eSP Price Insights summary showing $6,160.92 total price exposure across six items, with one item driving 79% and the largest single price jump at 10.25%.

The Quiet Margin Leak: Building a Portfolio View of Supplier Price Risk

October 21, 2026 9:00 am Published by Thomas Wurm Leave your thoughts

A 3% increase never fails a purchase-order approval — which is exactly why price creep goes unnoticed until the year is over. There is a way to rank price movement by what it actually costs.

eSP supplier performance scorecard thumbnail: a 91 out of 100 Performance Score in the On Track tier, with Quality flagged at 1,306 PPM defects.

Beyond the Spreadsheet: Building an Objective Supplier Performance Scorecard

September 9, 2026 9:00 am Published by Thomas Wurm 1 Comment

The supplier scorecard most teams rely on is a spreadsheet built the week before the quarterly review — stale by the time it's read, and re-argued every quarter. There's a more defensible way to score supplier risk.