Action points
- If you’re hit by a downturn, visit your core suppliers and share the problem with them.
- Incentivise suppliers by offering to share savings if they can identify significant cost reductions, or ways you can both work more profitably together.
- Work out the long-term benefits from outsourcing more of what you do to suppliers.
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