In the last three chapters we have stressed that the route towards strategic supplier status involves finding a close and burning relevance to the customer’s sense of value, to their ambitions for growth, and to their means of gaining competitive advantage. Never was this idea of matching and contributing more important than in the matter of this chapter: what drives them?
Value drivers
Here we aim to get to grips with the customer’s essential business values, what we might also call their business culture. As ever our purpose is to make sure we come down on the right side of relevant or irrelevant, because in this matter of ‘value drivers’ the difference between getting it right or wrong can be likened to the difference ...
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