The Steps to Becoming a Canadian Tire Product Supplier

Step 1: Supplier Introduction
Contact a Category Business Manager at our Head Office in Toronto, or our Shanghai or Hong Kong offices to introduce your company and your product offering. The Shanghai and Hong Kong offices support the submission process for Asian Pacific suppliers.

Go to the Contacts page to find the appropriate contact information based on your location and categories of products.

 
Step 2: Product Review
If you advance to this step, the Category Business Manager will request a proposal as part of their product review. The timing for reviews depends on the type of product and may be conducted bi-annually, annually, or at intervals greater than a year.

The components of your business proposal should provide information about:

• Your company history, public financial results, and business focus areas
• Your positioning philosophy versus that of your competitors within the market
• Your marketing strategy and how you propose to grow collective market share with Canadian Tire
• The depth and breadth of your product assortment, features and benefits
• Your commitment to new product development and to product quality
• Your capacity and ability to support the volume requirements of a national retailer
• The technical and marketing support you can provide (e.g. customer assistance, advertising and promotions support, training and education for Canadian Tire retail stores)

Canadian Tire’s Vendor Package consists of a number of documents that a Supplier must complete when providing a quote for the first time and when making updates to their product assortment.

Information required to evaluate your product offering includes items such as:

• Product quote cost and suggested retail price
• Product specifications, material content, environmental, and safety information
• Discounts, allowances, rebates and payment terms for the products quoted

Go to the Purchase Agreement Elements page to read more about the information required as part of the contract Canadian Tire has with its Suppliers.

Product samples will be requested where applicable.

 
Step 3: Contract Negotiations
The Category Business Manager, Shanghai or Hong Kong offices will invite selected Suppliers to meet and discuss their proposal.

Negotiations may be conducted on items such as quote cost, discounts, allowances and rebates, etc.  The Category Business Manager will finalize their decisions regarding which Suppliers and products they will include in their assortment. If selected, you will be asked to submit a final, signed contract.

 
Step 4: On Boarding
If you are selected, and after the final contract has been signed, you will receive more information about how Canadian Tire operates in areas such as Supply Chain and Accounts Payable. You may be contacted by other Canadian Tire team members to be set up on key processes and receive training support (e.g. to enable your successful first shipment).

Go to the Supplier Requirements page to read more about how you will be expected to engage with Canadian Tire.