This essential book provides a seven-step model for developing new supply chain relationships and how best to approach and manage sustainable partnerships. It identifies a number of benefits and dangers that can flow from close, open and more collaborative customer-supplier relationships:
higher housing quality
more open communication
greater certainty in relation to quality, price and programme
continuity of work for contractors
loss of competitiveness due to complacency
problems of dependency due to fewer suppliers and customers
- ISBN13 9780727732194
- Publish Date 30 May 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 4 January 2024
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher ICE Publishing
- Imprint Thomas Telford Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 124
- Language English