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...
question
Stay, dual-source, or switch?
A supplier change is not only a unit price. It is qualification time, quality variance, and what happens if the new source fails in month two.
What to score
Landed cost, quality evidence, lead time, concentration, and the cost of qualifying a second source. A cheaper quote that arrives late is not cheaper.
Staying is an option. Dual-source is often the serious alternative people skip because it is operationally annoying.
How Argumont treats it
Current supplier, challenger supplier, and dual-source can compete on explicit criteria. Residual operational risk should be visible in confidence.
Related pages
Compare suppliers
Supplier comparison is not a price list. Argumont holds quality history, variance in lead time, and dual-source designs on the same scorecard.
Manufacturing
A supplier or plant decision lives in lead time, quality, and concentration. Spreadsheets that ignore qualification time are not analysis.
Procurement
Vendor selection fails when the RFP theater is mistaken for evidence. Argumont compares suppliers on total cost, switching difficulty, and whether claimed capab...
Questions
These pages answer a search the way an operator would: what the question hides, what evidence is needed, and how to run it in Argumont.
Compare suppliers
Argumont challenges assumptions, researches evidence, compares competing approaches, and identifies the strongest decision.
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