Key customers define themselves by willingness to joint pilot projects in demarcated projects the provider can motivate customers to enhanced integration efforts, providing his own willingness demonstrated. He won may time advantages over the competition in the competition for the partnership with the customer. In a high integration and synergy potential, customers are consciously looking for collaborations with suppliers. Outsourcing strategies and partnerships should be only with suppliers with sufficient capacity are entered. System suppliers are therefore critically evaluated and selected. The suppliers must include also comprehensively in the quality strategy of the customer can be.
In order to compete in the competition for long-term partnerships, not only the services to the customer are to vote. A strategic key account management must lay the foundations for a successful long term relationship here. Both companies act as a strategic alliance, to competitive advantages in the System competition to realize. Does not skip a provider to the hurdles of the selection, it will be pushed back over its competitors. Cost benefits back to the customer in the foreground.
Other companies go a step further by stepping up cooperation with third party companies and outsource these purchasing activities into a separate company. This represents several companies and ensures best possible conditions due to the large volume of shopping. CF., Becker, j.: strategy check, ISBN 9783837073058, cf. Becker, Jorg: change management and intellectual capital report ISBN 9783837094190. The steps to the concentration of purchasing: Pooling of the various purchasing activities in the company, to achieve cooperation with third party companies to larger volumes of procurement, outsourcing of procurement in a separate shopping company. To achieve this objective, must be dismantled but still many reservations and solve various problems. For example, it may be that the supplier of powerful Buyers played out mercilessly against each other are. Each company also has an entrepreneurial responsibility for its suppliers. Collaborative action is needed: targets must be achieved together. In parallel the requirement profile for the buyer changed: increasingly interdisciplinary thinking is required. Global procurement, now lower value creation within the company, as well as the shortened product life cycles require a closer collaboration between customers and suppliers. This fear must advance be dismantled and replaced by the establishment of a common basis of trust. Against the backdrop of concepts for knowledge accounts see, including Becker, Jorg: management cockpit of the intellectual capital report, ISBN 9783837046540: benchmarks are needed In the management of a company cockpit indicating whether something rather better than or ehr worse is. Heart of a knowledge balance is the link target of all Division boundaries. Because you want to Strategies be implemented, need to be communicated also transparent.