To be a supplier to the electronics industry, unless one wants to avoid selling to the big guns, all companies will be caught in the CFS net as everyone in the supply chain will need to show their products flow back to a CFS certified smelter.
That does not seem like a smart idea, nor is it all that wise to depend on one of your competitors to be a reliable supplier.
Supply chains, for various reasons, can be notoriously opaque especially for items that are provided by a supplier that may be two or three tiers away from a core supplier.
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"To be a Wal-Mart supplier is a badge of honor, " says Robert Lamb, a management professor at New York University's Stern School of Business.
The other big labels would lose a shot at signing Calder and his legendary golden ear, and Jive itself could be transformed from a supplier into a formidable competitor.
It continues to be a major oil supplier to both Western Europe and the United States.
In addition, the mutual supply agreements enable Seagate to secure an important source of leading-edge NAND flash supply as the company expands its SSD and solid state hybrid product offerings, and position Seagate to be a more significant supplier of disk drives to Samsung.
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When companies compete to build military hardware, they expect that once a contract is won they will be the sole supplier of a weapon system for a decade or longer.
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Such a strategy may not be easily implementable with a big supplier like Samsung, but is a possibility with a struggling display maker like Sharp.
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But if there is only one nearby mine that can be relied upon as a supplier, the electricity generator tends to own it.
It won't be so easy for a chip supplier to lock a customer into a particular chip.
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It was at that point Europe questioned whether Russia could be relied on as a safe supplier of oil.
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The information can be used when deciding on a supplier, but also to decide whether a supplier is living up to their promises.
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Wal-Mart vendors are forced to adhere to strict environmental guidelines if they want to be an approved supplier and as a result Wal-Mart is doing a tremendous amount of good for our environment.
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"We were looking for a single supplier that would be able to provide the hardware, software and services required, " Mehalick said.
TPI's clients, argues that the relationship needs to be a partnership, concentrating on outputs rather than on inputs, as in a typical supplier relationship.
Any change in supplier or design would be "a pretty significant challenge, " the person said, requiring layers of modification from hardware to controlling software to adjust for a new battery.
But there may be damage to India's reputation as a reliable supplier.
But there are still a number of hurdles to be cleared before energy supplier EDF and the nuclear engineering firm Areva can begin construction.
The market-based approach to antitrust regulation, popularised by Aaron Director of the University of Chicago, holds that antitrust violations must be ripping someone off, whether a customer or a supplier.
That proved to be a wise move for Lockheed, which became the leading supplier of radars, computers and other items to the Navy thanks largely to the Moorestown facility.
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Because Delphi is still GM's number one parts supplier, and a strike at Delphi would be a disaster for GM.
"It could be that there is a genuine fault in Poland with the particular supplier of this meat, either deliberately or not deliberately because they haven't been doing the right checks, " she said.
Cirrus has been a supplier to previous generation iPhones, and presumably will be again in the new version of the phone.
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And would it be better to buy a part on the spot market or get a supplier to guarantee a certain quantity?
He'll be helped by the fact that Deere is the only supplier with a complete frame assembly common to all its European tractor models, enabling it to reconfigure cheaply for different terrains and climates.
Vetter suggested that bankruptcy would allow GM to make significant changes faster, because a judge could void labor and supplier contracts, debts could be restructured, and Congress would not be involved.
Mr Vasella claims that big buyers, such as Wal-Mart in America and health-care providers in emerging markets, want to be able to buy a full range of patented and generic products from one supplier.
The Cherokee will be equipped with a nine-speed transmission derived from a joint partnership with German supplier ZF Group.
Before this month's Chinese Grand Prix the FIA announced a tender for "a third-party supplier of engines and transmission systems" to be used by all teams in 2010, 2011 and 2012.
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