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[panagiotis]

Hello experienced engineers,

I have a general question how do process engineers or engineers choose between different vendors?

[breizh]

Hi,

 

As a process engineer you are supposed to issue the specifications for the purchasing/procurement team to contact vendors.

Normally a minimum of 3 vendors is required to be able to compare offers.

You have to review their technical proposals according to your requirements.

Normally you should have a technical review with vendors for clarification prior to submit your conclusions to the purchasing/procurement team to do their job (negotiation).

This is in Theory; you may also provide additional inputs (recommendations) based on past projects.

Key to any projects: good technical specification

Good luck,

Breizh 

[shvet1]

Depends on context. Describe what you mean "choose"

[Dacs]

We don't get to choose. 

What we do is to evaluate what the vendor offers with respect to the technical requirement stated in some document sent to various vendors to do their bid (usually called RFQ or request for quotation, but it can be called by other names)

 

We get to say whether what the vendor offers are technically acceptable (or not).

 

But after that it's outside of our hands. There are other factors that affect selection process (cost, delivery schedule, guarantees, etc) that are simply outside a Process Engineer's scope.

 

Key to any projects: good technical specification

 

To add, a well-defined scope of work detailing the technical requirements. Process Engineers have to fully define this before bids are requested.

 

Anything in doubt and not resolved during the bidding process will cause headaches later on in the form of vendor change orders.

[panagiotis]

Thank you guys for the your answers! Dac's I like the part about the factors, which are out of scope.