in real big business customers can be the real bosses. they are not selling potatoes, and even a farmer that sell potatoes to MacDonald can be frced to follow some advices and prcesses to reach the client needs...
partnership with the provider is the secret of some big industrial sucesses, like in germany or japan. and lack of respect to the subcontractor can be the secret of failure like with GM... 2012/2/22 Michele Comitini <michele.comit...@gmail.com> > Who is the new supplier? Ti? > > BTW I find strange that a customer has such decisional power on a > corporate business. Does that imply that if a bigger customer comes > they would change their supplier? No it probably means that the > customer has become more a "owner"... > > > mic > > > Il 22 febbraio 2012 17:02, Mark Iverson-ZeroPoint > <zeropo...@charter.net> ha scritto: > > RE: Rossi/NI situation… > > > > My assumption all along was that NI was helping more with > > engineering/technical *advice* on how to monitor the various parameters… > > they have extensive experience in that area. There would be no need for > NI > > to remain actively involved for any length of time once the > instrumentation > > design was completed… at that point, NI might just be a supplier, but > even > > that is unlikely since their products tend to be quite pricey, and Rossi > > wants to keep the price as low as possible. > > > > > > > > -Mark > >
