Supplier Briefing Deck

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Eight slides for a supplier briefing

Eight slides for the annual session where a buying organization tells its suppliers what next year looks like. The audience is external, which changes what belongs on the screen: everything here will be quoted back to you by a supplier planning their own capacity, so nothing goes on these slides that has not been agreed internally. The contents on slide 2 list four lines – Next year’s policy, This year and next year, Key metrics, Trend analysis – under a “4 items” tag, and the deck runs in about ten minutes before questions.

The policy slide is the whole message

Slide 3 is the divider (PART 01) and slide 4 the body, opening with “What suppliers need to know first.” and carrying three lines: orders of about KRW 43bn next year, competitive bidding up to 80%, bundled orders by item. Each one lands differently depending on which supplier is listening. The volume figure is what small suppliers plan against, the bidding share is what incumbents hear as a warning, and item bundling is what decides whether a supplier who currently wins one line item still has a place. Say which of the three is the change and which are continuations, or every supplier in the room will assume the worst reading applies to them.

This year against next year

Slide 5 is labeled A and B: “This year” reads separate orders per item, ratings not disclosed, payment in 45 days; “Next year” reads bundled orders with bigger volume, ratings sent to each supplier, payment in 30 days. Two of those three are improvements from the supplier’s side and one is a consolidation that will cost some of them work, which is the right balance for a briefing of this kind – a slide where everything is good news is not believed. The payment terms line is the one to be most careful with. Moving from 45 days to 30 is a commitment to a cash-flow schedule, so confirm it with finance before the slide leaves the building.

Figures and grades

Slide 6 carries four tiles: 43bn next-year orders in KRW, 80% competitive bid share, 30 payment days and 186 suppliers attending. The currency sits in the label rather than in the value so the figure prints on one line at full size; keep it that way if you replace the number. Three of the four repeat slides 4 and 5, so they are edited together. Slide 7 splits the supplier base by grade – A 42, B 78, C 51, D 15 – under a “Unit: index” caption. Those add to 186, matching the attendance tile, so the chart is really the registered supplier base rather than a trend. Relabel the caption accordingly, and decide before you present whether showing a D grade in a room where D-graded suppliers are sitting is the message you want; many organizations show only A through C and brief the rest individually.

Before you present it externally

• Every number on these slides is a planning input for someone else’s business. Do not publish a volume figure that has not been approved.
• If ratings are being disclosed for the first time, say how and when, not just that they will be.
• Bundling by item changes who can bid at all. Name the qualification route for suppliers who fall below the new volume threshold.
• Close with the registration and evaluation calendar. “Building trade that lasts” needs dates behind it to mean anything.