What is the best
supplier portfolio?
How do you build a big supplier list and keep your buying
power with core suppliers?
You know how sometimes
you get a short lead-time order and all of the sudden it seems like all the suppliers
who called you day and night are busy right at that time?
In a perfect world we
would have a long list of qualified suppliers that one of them will always be ready
to take your order at a competitive price and ship it on time.
But in this world we
have cost, production control and buying power consideration that push us to
reduce our suppliers number. In addition, we de-prioritize finding new
suppliers so we have more time to solve issues with pending orders.
There are two dilemmas we constantly deal with:.................Read More