The High Cost of Poor Supplier Relationships
Adrian Gonzalez
May 20, 2015
We’ve seen several headlines over the past six months about how poorly suppliers are being treated these days. Here’s a sampling: Tesco faces fresh accusations
Procuring Logistics Services is Not the Same as Buying Paper Clips
Adrian Gonzalez
March 9, 2015
In a Forbes blog post last week, Kate Vitasek highlighted an issue that continues to negatively affect 3PL-customer relationships: Procurement organizations looking to shift more and
Talking Logistics YOUniversity: Our First Course
Adrian Gonzalez
February 9, 2015
Talking Logistics was launched as a live, online video talk show focused on supply chain and logistics topics. A year after launching, however, a supply
Apple: Still a Penny Wise and Pound Foolish?
Adrian Gonzalez
November 12, 2014
There’s been a lot of press lately about the business relationship between Apple and GT Advanced Technologies (“GTAT”), which started when GTAT unexpectedly filed for
Do Your Business Relationships Suffer from Strategic Drift?
Kate Vitasek
October 13, 2014
Even the seemingly most well-crafted contracts and business relationships can suffer from a common but dangerous ailment that I call Strategic Drift. Strategic drift occurs
Time for a New RFP
Kate Vitasek
August 20, 2014
As you all know the dreaded RFP—or Request for Proposals—is a source of tension, angst and for many of us, a lot of grunt work.
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