When a company creates a rating form for its suppliers and rates their on-time delivery, product quality, service advice, and so forth, in order to determine which suppliers to put on an approved list of suppliers for specific products, this process is called a(n):
A. JIT rating.
B. resident buyer analysis.
C. vendor analysis.
D. ISO 9000 certification.
E. buying center analysis.
Answer: C. vendor analysis.