Supplier selection
Suppliers fail politely in emails and expensively in shortages. Argumont compares named suppliers and dual-source designs against quality, lead time, and concen...
decision
One supplier versus two is a risk price
This educational page does not tell you to dual-source. It tells you to put the cost of concentration on the same page as the unit price.
What hides
Qualification cost of a second source, MOQ waste, and the probability you are refusing to estimate. A cheap single source is an assumption about uptime.
How Argumont would run it
Options: stay single, qualify a second, hold buffer, redesign the part. Evidence status on lead-time claims matters more than a proverb about eggs and baskets.
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Price the concentration risk
Argumont challenges assumptions, researches evidence, compares competing approaches, and produces an inspectable verdict. You keep the final decision.
Price the concentration risk