In my experience, balancing conflicting priorities between a vendor and your internal team requires clear alignment with overall business goals. For example, I once mediated between a vendor's tight delivery timeline and my team's quality concerns by setting mutual priorities and creating a phased delivery plan. One helpful approach is holding joint meetings to ensure all parties understand each other's constraints. A common mistake is favoring one side without compromise—this can damage relationships. Focus on collaboration to find a solution that benefits both.

To balance conflicting priorities between a vendor and your internal team, start by objectively assessing the situation and aligning both sides with business goals. Facilitate open communication by holding joint meetings to discuss challenges and find compromises, such as phased deliverables or shared tasks. Clearly define roles and responsibilities to avoid overlap and use project management tools for performance tracking. Leverage leadership skills to mediate conflicts and make informed decisions that serve project goals. Document agreements to create accountability and follow up regularly to ensure adherence and address any new issues. This approach fosters collaboration and keeps the project on track.

A lack of a procurement strategy can drive conflicts, therefore leadership in procurement it is important, the first to know about the strategy is the internal stakeholders, and maintain open and firm communication, this will also help backdoor selling and also need to have procurement as main point of contact. Usually priorities are set by the customers not vendors, and in case it failed, pleas investigate and assess first, perhaps have been missing information from inside, nevertheless before mediating ensure to have enough information on hand, afterward you need to lead the conversation and clarify the disparity between both, vendor and your organization, both need each other if already engaged in a business.

Comece por alinhar os objetivos do projeto. Certifique-se de que tanto a equipe interna quanto o fornecedor entendam as metas comuns. Estabele?a canais de comunica??o abertos e regulares. Reuni?es frequentes podem ajudar a manter todos informados e a abordar quest?es à medida que surgem.

Communicate openly with both sides, clarify goals, and seek common ground. Prioritize tasks based on overall project needs, and encourage collaboration to ensure both parties feel valued and heard.