ISO/PRF 25500-240

Supply chain interoperability and integration — Part 240: Strategic sourcing concepts, principles and data requirements

Scope

This document describes the fundamental concepts and principles of strategic sourcing which are universally applicable to the following:
— organizations seeking to improve their onboarding process through a common understanding of the fundamental concepts, principles and vocabulary used in strategic sourcing;
— organizations seeking to improve the quality of the data they receive from their trading partners in order to establish confidence in their supply chain.
1.1 In scope
— terminology required to describe the workflow and data used in the strategic sourcing process;
— stages of the strategic sourcing process;
— data required to support the strategic sourcing process;
— metadata and reference data required to support the strategic sourcing process.
1.2 Out of scope
— data exchange technology;
— supplier evaluation methods and techniques.