The notion of control over supplier-customer interactions has many dimensions: price, equipment, how the relevant product or service is presented or advertised, how the product or service is delivered or performed, work schedule, and so on.
(A monopoly is a company that has extraordinary control over supply as a seller of goods to consumers; a monopsony has extraordinary control over suppliers as a buyer of their goods).
Hornby said it was looking for additional manufacturers in China and elsewhere and that it would open a new warehouse in China to give it greater control over suppliers.
Supply chain issues, for example, can be really difficult for a company to work on since they don't have direct control over suppliers' factories, but they'll always be the one who ultimately faces the blame.
In its report, the select committee said control over suppliers in the Universal Credit had largely been absent, with multi-million pound orders sometimes being signed off by secretarial staff.
* There were inadequate financial controls over supplier spending which was poorly managed and documented.
If Kmart goes under, Wal-Mart and Target are really going to have more control over the suppliers.
"Strategically, it makes a lot of sense for A.M.D. to gain control over its chipset supplier," said Tim Luke, an analyst with Lehman Brothers.
In addition, Lockheed has said it will shed $1 billion of Northrop's assets from the deal to eliminate most anticompetitive problems from overlapping businesses, making this a true antitrust test case of vertical integration involving control over Lockheed's suppliers.
The disclosure about the ashtrays and socket wrench is the latest in a series of purchases for airplanes that have raised questions about the Pentagon's procurement practices and its control over prices charged by suppliers.
