Vendor Performance and Training

We monitor compliance with your critical data and events, such as documentation, booking, and exceptions.

Additionally, we measure performance in key areas, including:

• Shipment window compliance
• Timely submission of documents
• Container utilization
• Accuracy of shipment information and container manifests

Our Vendor Management services enhance supply chain standards, helping both you and your vendors maintain strong, high-quality relationships.

Vendor Education

We provide comprehensive education to your vendors on your logistics procedures, ensuring that products are properly packaged, loaded, and delivered. These programs are customized to meet your specific needs, and include:

• Defining and communicating your requirements in the local language, clearly establishing vendor roles and responsibilities
• Ensuring compliance with established processes and procedures
• Creating open, seamless communication channels that connect your vendors, PLG, and your operations
• Fostering a spirit of teamwork that drives continuous improvement across the entire supply chain

Over the past decade, PLG has delivered vendor education programs to companies worldwide.

Monitoring production status and compliance

PLG monitors production and compliance against predefined trip plans. We understand that different industries have unique requirements. For some, tracking raw material receipts and documenting their sources is crucial, while others prioritize first-run quality, production timelines, and final Quality Control (QC) inspection certificates.

Our global network and advanced technological solutions provide real-time status updates before products leave the factory. We closely monitor quantities, timelines, and quality to ensure potential issues, such as incorrect labeling or sub-standard products, are caught before reaching the customer. This significantly reduces costly rework or returns.

Delivering operational excellence

• Adherence to operational requirements
• Commitment to continuous improvement
• Provision of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training materials

Purchase Order Management

Our Purchase Order Management program is a comprehensive, multi-modal logistical solution designed to efficiently manage the entire supply chain by providing full end-to-end visibility.

By allowing us to measure and evaluate performance data across all key parties in the supply chain, we can enhance operations, optimizing speed while minimizing costs.

Purchase Order and Vendor Management services include a range of highly effective, streamlining solutions, such as:

• Monitoring and ensuring vendors cross-reference orders against purchase order quantities and cargo ready dates
• Ensuring vendor compliance with agreed parameters, including providing necessary training
• Managing documentation with fast, efficient, and thorough collection, verification, and uploading to prevent delays
• Implementing vendor performance KPIs, including measuring delivery within agreed shipment windows, vendor booking, cargo delivery, and document submission dates
• Distributing purchase orders directly to factories or agents

This approach ensures smooth and efficient supply chain management, improving overall performance and reducing delays.

Consolidation

PLG’s Consolidation services provide the advantage of purchasing smaller quantities from various vendors without sacrificing efficiency.

Consolidation is more than just filling a container. It enables buyers to source products from multiple vendors while maintaining operational efficiency throughout the shipment process.

Sourcing from several vendors makes economic sense, but challenges arise when trying to balance production runs with full container quantities and sales forecasts. Overstocking to qualify for container discounts is no longer necessary. Our consolidation services allow you to purchase the exact amounts needed to meet sales forecasts in the most cost-effective way.

PLG consolidates goods from multiple vendors into a single shipment, acting as your single point of contact. This helps reduce lost economies of scale, management costs, and additional customs requirements.

Through a unified platform, we provide a clear pipeline of information from all suppliers, enabling efficient monitoring. Positioned close to the production source, we verify everything from transposed Purchase Order (PO) numbers to inferior carton quality. When we know it, you know it.