Industry Week: Lost in a Merger, this Supply Chain Strategy Deserves a Comeback
May 31, 2022
“Bottom line, it is in an OEM’s best financial interests to provide its strategic suppliers with the same level of improvement support they would receive if they were internal factory departments. Under this approach, strategic suppliers would no longer just be given tactical performance goals and expected of their own accord to achieve them. Instead, OEMs would collaborate with and assist them—as needed—in their strategic continuous improvement efforts.”