to their habitual supplier.

My supplier, he gone.

You had a monopoly supplier.

I'm systematically working up to her supplier.

Who is he? He was a supplier.

but you can't decide I'm your only supplier.

The orderly was just your most recent supplier.

Guess you were not too sick to meet with your supplier.

Needless to say, Norway has become the world's second largest oil supplier.

We just don't want to be a supplier or a joint venture

So you might be a graphics supplier to Apple or Hewlett Packard.

Ain't nothing I can do. My supplier only comes out after dark,

You don't give us the name of your supplier you're going nowhere.

Hell, I was pretty much blown out at just about every dive supplier south of Key West.

Now, if you just tell me who your supplier is I think this can end very well for you.

Sometimes it's purchased directly from the machine tool supplier but usually its purchased from, and installed by a third part integrator

The main American manufacturer of that active ingredient decided a few years ago to relocate to China because it's the world's biggest supplier of pigs.

And let's face it, the contract from a major multinational brand to a supplier in India or China has much more persuasive value than the local labor law, the local environmental regulations, the local human rights standards.

Apple and the record labels was another example of a great strategic alliance, but Apple and Foxconn is a great example of a supplier and might, at times, actually be a good example of a joint venture as well.

But these bad projects, which were absolutely damaging for the economy for many generations, for the environment, for thousands of families who had to be resettled they were suddenly put together by consortia of banks, of supplier agencies, of insurance agencies

However, there's a big problem with the official statistics, in that if, for instance, a Japanese component supplier ships something to China to be put into an iPod, and then the iPod gets shipped to the U.S., that component ends up getting counted multiple times.

Maybe you want to have your manufacturing facility next to the city supplier or you might say, okay we understand their distant and we can manage that remotely but you need to actually think through not only this relationship but as you'll see the relationship between resources and the partners part of the business model campus because some of this supplies and services required deep relationships.

That is, people might actually kind of find you are an okay substitute, but really don't understand your unique value until some tipping point where they realize, oh my gosh, you're just not another vendor in an existing market, you actually solve better a set of needs for a niche or you're a low cost supplier that really makes you unique and special and revenues take off.

So for example you're making silk and whose going to be your silk and weaver supplier in the value chain or your making still, where are we going to get the iron ore or are you going to need a thousands of square feet of warehouse space if you're going to setup a distribution center and what's really interesting is this kindly obviously a fact where you going to put your company facility.

Now the other thing is that in a resegmented market and again we use Southwest as a low cost entry or whole foods as a unique niche supplier via positioning and what you really want to start asking is what factors can you eliminate that your industry has long competed on or what can you reduce below the industry standard or raise above the industry standard or what can be created that the industry has never offered?