Abstract
Today's global competition mandates that each customer-supplier combination achieve a balance between the supplier's manufacturing flexibility and the customer's schedule stability. Sharing valid schedules, working on quality together, reducing each other's costs, and streamlining communications allows a customer and supplier to become true enterprise partners.
MeSH terms
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Consumer Behavior*
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Contract Services / organization & administration*
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Contract Services / standards
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Decision Making, Organizational
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Equipment and Supplies / economics
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Equipment and Supplies / supply & distribution*
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Industry / organization & administration*
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Industry / standards
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Materials Management, Hospital
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Organizational Culture
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Organizational Objectives
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Planning Techniques
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Quality Control*
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Total Quality Management
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United States