Throughout Part IV we were concerned with making a positive impact on the customer’s purchasing strategy, our goal being the achievement of ‘key supplier status’ as judged by the customer’s professional buyers.
In the next five chapters it is time to move up a level, to consider our impact on the customer’s business strategy, in pursuit now of what we will call ‘strategic supplier status’. Many businesses will use the two terms almost as synonyms, but I make a clear distinction; the goal of strategic supplier status will find us dealing with bigger issues and with a wider audience as we will need to consider how we are judged by the customer as a whole (not just the people in the purchasing department), across a range ...
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