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Featured Story: Purchasing's first commandment: Know Thy Supplier
Sunday, 24 June 2007 18:00
Full IssuePurchasing's first commandment: Know Thy Supplier
Thorough vendor screening is the key to avoiding nonconforming electronic components. In today’s global electronics marketplace, component buyers have myriad options for sourcing; and assessing the credibility of innumerable suppliers is time consuming and costly.
Customers rely on Smith & Associates’ vendor screening and quality control processes to complete this task for them. By sourcing through Smith & Associates, electronics manufacturers are assured that suppliers are subjected to a stringent ongoing evaluation process and that parts undergo painstaking inspection before arriving at their dock. The Smith logo on the box means more than 20 years’ open market experience is inside.
A recent Purchasing magazine article, Purchasing's first commandment: Know thy supplier examines the challenges facing today’s electronic components buyer.
