A supplier scorecard is only as good as its price column
CostRift doesn't build your scorecard or weigh price against delivery and quality — it supplies the one column most scorecards get wrong: current, comparable, per-item price data.
Download the price-data template (.xlsx)What CostRift can give your scorecard
- Current, per-item supplier price — from a Supplier Comparison or Price Change run.
- Previous price and the direction/size of the change — from a Price Change comparison.
- Which supplier is cheapest per item, and each supplier's coverage of your list.
- A clean CSV export you can paste straight into your own scorecard format.
What CostRift doesn't do
- Lead time, on-time delivery, or fulfillment-reliability data — CostRift has none of this.
- Quality or defect-rate scoring — not something CostRift measures or estimates.
- A weighted overall score combining price with any other criteria.
- Any judgment about which supplier is "best" once more than price is involved.
The downloadable template below follows the same rule: the price columns are structured for CostRift-exported data, the non-price score columns are left blank for you to fill in by hand, and there is no formula combining the two into an overall score.
How the price column actually gets filled in
Run a price comparison — a Price Change between a supplier's old and new price list, or a Supplier Comparison across several suppliers' quotes for the same items — and export the result. The SKU, current price, previous price, and trend columns map directly into the template. See the supplier quote comparison template if you're starting from a one-off RFQ rather than an ongoing supplier relationship.
Get accurate price data first — try it with example dataFrequently asked questions
Does CostRift calculate a supplier scorecard for me?
No. CostRift does not do weighted vendor scoring, quality scoring, delivery scoring, or produce a full supplier scorecard. It supplies the price data a scorecard needs — current price, previous price, and the comparison between suppliers — and stops there.
What exactly is in the downloadable template?
A price-data starter: SKU, item, current price, previous price, and price trend, structured to match what a CostRift export gives you. The lead-time, quality, and reliability columns are blank on purpose — you fill those in from your own supplier records.
Why doesn't the template calculate an overall score?
Because that would mean CostRift deciding how to weight price against delivery and quality on your behalf, which it has no basis to do and doesn't attempt. If your team uses a weighted formula, that step belongs in your own scorecard process, using whatever weighting makes sense for your business.
Can I use this with Price Change or Supplier Comparison?
Both. A Price Change comparison gives you the current-vs-previous price columns directly. A Supplier Comparison gives you the per-item cheapest-supplier data if you're scoring multiple suppliers for the same items.
Get the price column right, then build your scorecard
Download the template, then run a comparison to fill in the price columns with real, current numbers.
Try a price comparison