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Solutions to Common Problems
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Direct, Reduce the Supply Base...? Let us tailor a strategy to best serve your
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Companies:
Reduce the number of suppliers
for each commodity of purchases to a minimum, a few, or often only one
Traditional companies:
Deal with many suppliers, so
many that it is impractical to fully understand the capabilities of any
one of them (quality, capacity, cost structure, or technical capabilities)
Divide the volume among many
suppliers to the extent that their company's purchasing bargaining power
and influence is low at all of them
Focus primarily on price in
making buying decisions
Benefits:
Speeds development and
fulfillment operations because fewer and more dependable suppliers make
fewer mistakes to cause disruptions
Permits much more time to be
spent with a supplier to develop a close relationship and understand his
capabilities
Makes you a major customer of
your important suppliers which allows you to influence quality, price,
delivery schedules, and capacity decisions
Reduces the number of
variables with which your manufacturing, quality, and reliability people
have to cope, producing better products
Allows design engineers to
work closely with supplier engineers to effect functional, cost, and
quality improvements in products and to make outsourcing decisions