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How a Buyer Cut Supply Risk Costs with Redundancy Planning
In this episode of The Buyer's Side, Lucas and Luna explore how one procurement team at a mid-sized manufacturer cut supply-chain disruption costs by 22 percent through strategic redundancy planning. Instead of dual sourcing everything, they identified two critical components where single-source dependency was a ticking clock, added a second qualified supplier for each, and negotiated volume commitments that kept premiums under 3 percent. The episode breaks down the cost-benefit math: how they quantified the risk of a six-week shutdown, the two-step qualification process that took 11…
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