The phrase "initial supplier" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a company, business, or individual that has provided a service or product to an individual or organization for the first time. For example, "The initial supplier for the project was unable to meet our demands, so we had to go with a different company."
It started using Cerner's software three years ago after dumping its initial supplier, America's IDX, because the company kept missing deadlines.
It was the first company to successfully offer higher grades of coffee, like arabica, and was the initial supplier to a nascent Seattle-based coffee shop named Starbucks.
Peet's success encouraged the Starbucks founders to base their business model on selling high-quality coffee beans and equipment, and Peet's became the initial supplier of green coffee beans to Starbucks.
Apple has been cutting back its orders from Samsung as it has sought to diversify its memory chip supply lines, although Samsung remains on the list of initial suppliers for the new iPhone, the person said.
After subsequent apparently legitimate transactions with buffer companies, the phones are sold back to the initial overseas supplier and the exporting company reclaims VAT on its purchases.The scam is catchily called carousel fraud because such trades can go round and round in a loop as long as the criminals think they can get away with it.
For this purpose, in the first step, the chain under investigation is divided into several stages including first and second suppliers, initial and final customers, and the producing company.
We explore an instalment payment (contract) consisting of an initial payment to the supplier as soon as the product is put in use, followed by a deferred payment that is contingent upon the product in normal operation within a certain period.
But the commission's initial study of 15 suppliers did not find that they consistently favoured larger chains at the expense of small retailers.
some partners want to do training using their own proprietary content assessment components of training are proprietary not OER downstream, the suppliers pay a fee for training to cover costs and improve materials, but must be affordable to suppliers after initial train-the-trainer in-country, partner must be responsible for continuous roll out and scaling up.
After their initial founding with one milk supplier, Beecher's production system has had to expand several times to include more suppliers.
Intel is currently selecting a "best of breed" supplier for its initial copper production.
