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Anything and everything about vendor management, just ask.
Thread poster: RESOURCEFUL L10
RESOURCEFUL L10
RESOURCEFUL L10
United Kingdom
Local time: 10:22
Jun 21, 2021

Hello! I am an experienced Vendor Manager and I would like to interact with the Proz.com community in a different way than just posting job adverts and leaving reviews.

Is there anything you would like to know about vendor management and the supplier-buyer interaction in the language services industry?

Feel free to ask!


Grigori Gazarian
 
Sadek_A
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..... Jun 22, 2021

How often do you apply your personal preference(s) and/or prejudice(s) in selection of vendors?

If any, kindly do list classifications of such biases, whether in descending or ascending order; how they operate; and, how you -and the company, assuming they're onto/filled into the situation- make peace with such choices?

Thanks


Abba Storgen (X)
 
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
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Vendor? Jun 22, 2021

Let’s start by using the correct terminology: I’m not a vendor, I don’t sell goods to my customers, I provide a service (translation, transcreation, editing and proofreading)…

P.L.F. Persio
Peter Shortall
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Ines Radionovas-Lagoutte, PhD
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Ester Vidal
 
Ivana Kahle
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Germany
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By all means! Jun 22, 2021

Hello Carmen,
why don't you write an article or a case study about the topic?
Chatting about it doesn't make much sense.
Regards,
Ivana


P.L.F. Persio
Maria Teresa Borges de Almeida
 
Robert Rietvelt
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Maybe a silly question,....... Jun 22, 2021

...... but what is 'vendor management' in the context of translation?

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Matthias Brombach
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The answer is very easy: Jun 22, 2021

Robert Rietvelt wrote:

...... but what is 'vendor management' in the context of translation?


To place the translation job to a "vendor" who offers the "best rate".


Ester Vidal
 
Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Kay-Viktor Stegemann
Germany
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English to German
In memoriam
You are a vendor, Teresa Jun 22, 2021

Teresa Borges wrote:

Let’s start by using the correct terminology: I’m not a vendor, I don’t sell goods to my customers, I provide a service (translation, transcreation, editing and proofreading)…


Teresa, this is just simple business terminology. From an accounting perspective, every entity that sells goods or services to a business is a vendor. That can be the supplier of prefabricated parts, the Internet provider, lawyers, tax consultants, subcontractors, caterers, every person or business that invoices something is a vendor. Even Sir Elton John would be a vendor to a business if he sold them a song for a new commercial, so the term does not diminish the art you put into you work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor


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Translation-savvy Jun 22, 2021

How translation-savvy should a vendor manager be?

P.L.F. Persio
 
Giovanni Guarnieri MITI, MIL
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United Kingdom
Local time: 10:22
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why... Jun 22, 2021

the only time that "vendor management" contacts me they ask me to reduce my rates? Every.Single.Time.

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