When looking at potential suppliers, it will help you to consider whether they have:

And even though normal operations resumed last week, production was slowed because strikes at suppliers had created a shortage of parts.

Look at unusual sources and suppliers when searching for storage systems.

Where it encountered problems at suppliers it considered a takeover and grew in this fashion also.

We look at other suppliers every two or three years, but we keep renewing his contract.

He priced several at local suppliers, but they ran from $18 to $20 - far too expensive for his new business.

Those will in turn create more jobs at local suppliers and businesses outside the aerospace industry, economists say.

Such glitches added to the confusion at suppliers, which were already stretched to the limit.

Thousands of workers at subcontractors and suppliers around the nation could also lose their jobs.

"Clients can't look at us just as suppliers," he said.