In situations where there must be tight alignment between some of the processes implemented by the supplier and those of the project, monitoring these processes will help prevent interface problems.
The processes selected for monitoring should include engineering, project management (including contracting), and support processes critical to successful project performance.
Monitoring, if not performed with adequate care, can at one extreme be invasive and burdensome, or at the other extreme be uninformative and ineffective. There should be sufficient monitoring to detect issues as early as possible that may affect the supplier’s ability to satisfy the requirements of the supplier agreement.
Analyzing selected processes involves taking the data obtained from monitoring selected supplier processes and analyzing it to determine whether there are serious issues.