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How a Buyer Used Supplier Collaboration to Cut Lead Times 30 Percent
Episode 91 of The Buyer's Side explores how a mid-sized electronics manufacturer used structured supplier collaboration to slash lead times by 30 percent. Lucas and Luna walk through the actual process: forming a joint planning team, sharing demand forecasts weekly, and co-locating a supplier engineer. They discuss the upfront investment in trust and data-sharing, the role of non-disclosure agreements, and why this approach often fails if buyers treat it as a one-time project. No abstract theory — just a concrete playbook that buyers can adapt for their own supply chains. If you have…
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