Supply Risk - The Quality and Performance Connection

When it comes to supply risk these days, most organizations immediately concern themselves with the probability of disruption in their supply chain from potential bankruptcies or business failures. But often the more insidious form of supply risk is not supplier insolvency. Rather, it's an often slow decline in quality or performance that is difficult to detect from delivery to delivery. As suppliers look for ways to survive, many cut corners that they hope will go unnoticed. And these problems compound the farther up the supply chain you go.

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