Supplier Scorecard Calculator

Normalization means the four weights are always treated as shares of 100%, no matter what raw numbers you enter -- weights of 30, 25, 25, and 20 sum to 100 and are used as-is, but weights of 60, 50, 50, and 40 (summing to 200) are each divided by that 200 total first, landing at the same effective 30%, 25%, 25%, 20% split. This lets you think in terms of relative importance (quality matters roughly 1.5x as much as service) without having to make your own weights sum to exactly 100 by hand.

Weighted Score is the precise 0-100 composite number; Grade buckets that number into four familiar tiers -- A (90+), B (75-89), C (60-74), and D (below 60) -- the same way a school report card works. Use Weighted Score when comparing suppliers precisely against each other or tracking a single supplier's trend over time, and use Grade when communicating results quickly to stakeholders who don't need the exact decimal.

Score Range is the gap between a supplier's best and worst individual dimension score, and it flags inconsistency that an averaged Weighted Score can mask -- two suppliers can post the same 75 weighted score, but one might be reliably mediocre across every dimension while the other is excellent on quality and poor on delivery. A large range signals real operational risk worth investigating even when the overall score looks acceptable.

Not necessarily -- the right weighting depends on what matters most for a given category of spend. A just-in-time manufacturing input might warrant weighting Delivery highest, since a late shipment can stop a production line, while a commodity office supply might reasonably weight Cost highest since quality and service risk are low. Set weights that reflect your actual business risk for each supplier category rather than reusing one default split everywhere.