Chapter 5, it would behoove both the contract manufacturer and the contracting party to take a lean approach to managing relationships across all tiers. What is important is that all parties are actively engaged in nurturing these relationships from product concept to final delivery. Although this practice is not fully evolved to date, continuation of traditional supplier management tactics in a globally outsourced model would be the death knell for supply chain velocity.
[2]James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos, The Machine That Changed the World: The Story of Lean Production, Harper Perennial, 1990, p. 146.