Supplier has in place a back up plan for alternative sourcing, utilizing supplier's internal network, if sourcing became a problem at this facility.

供应商己设后备搜索资源计划， 如果这个（某个）部门的搜索资源出了问题，可以使用内部（供应资源）网络。

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Thee alternative to competition is monopoly, where there's a single supplier of a good or a service and that person konwing there's no competition has the opportunity to put up prices.

费尔斯说，与竞争相对的是垄断。 当某种商品或服务只由唯一的供应商提供给市场时，供应商知道没有竞争，就有可能提高价格。

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Even to the point of making modest payments, or of splitting your orders, just to make sure that that alternative supplier is always there.

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This may require detailed planning with multiple vendors, procuring and holding spares at alternative locations, or accepting possible risk of supplier delays following a disaster event.

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In the emerging world , the most famous mobile payments success is in Kenya, where M-Pesa , the P2P payments service of mobile phone supplier Safaricom, has effectively created an alternative banking and payments system.

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