I agree on vegetable market, or established industrial processes where competition is high. Not for a company that should sell an highly needed revolutionary product the functioning of which is secret, a black box, that has virtually no competitor. IMHO that decisional power is given by something more than a customer/supplier contract.
mic Il 23 febbraio 2012 00:02, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > 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 >> >
