Everett Tucker
Everett Tucker
ability business cost eliminate errors identify imposing inventory low poor practices provide reduce rid total value waste
They can tell us what are some of the poor practices that we are imposing on them that make the cost of doing business with us higher. What is impeding their ability to provide low total cost of ownership? How can we identify and reduce waste and eliminate errors in our processes? How do we get rid of inventory that is not value added?
collecting efficient information spend
Now we are a lot more efficient at collecting and aggregating spend information by supplier, by commodity, by customer, by product.
allowed customer customers decision decisions design examples growing number progress
We have made some progress influencing the sourcing decision that our customers make. There are a growing number of examples of where we participated in the customer design and development and made recommendations about suppliers. The customer allowed us to make sourcing decisions on their behalf.