PlanteMoran

Plante Moran is a professional services firm offering audit, tax, consulting, and wealth management services. Its consulting practice includes supplier relations analytics designed to help manufacturers understand how commercial relationships affect cost, efficiency, resilience, and innovation across the supply chain. The firm combines academic research, advanced statistical modeling, and practical industry experience to assess supplier perceptions and identify opportunities to improve collaboration and performance.

A central offering is the Working Relations Index® (WRI®) Study, a proprietary, academically validated framework developed through more than three decades of research. Plante Moran also provides supplier and relationship analytics to examine how business practices and behaviors influence outcomes, as well as voice-of-supplier and customer research to capture perceptions, risks, and improvement priorities.

Engagements can include customized supplier surveys, data collection, analysis, and interpretation, followed by recommendations focused on strengthening trust and transactional efficiency. The firm works with organizations across manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, food and beverage, and other industrial sectors.