"Vertical keiretsu," characterized by suppliers' willingness to make customized investments, their long-term relationships with manufacturers and financial as well as personal ties between them, had been recognized as an important source of strength in Japanese industries.
Canada is likely to pay at least $4 billion for the planes, and one factor that may determine the political fate of the deal is Lockheed's willingness to buy parts from Canadian suppliers.
A general sensitivity analysis procedure for fuzzy rule-based systems is proposed and then implemented, to identify the most important supplier capabilities and willingness criteria and to formulate better supplier development strategies.
In summary, this study trusts that WTPM is the preference of the customers for certain suppliers and the willingness of paying higher prices to purchase or use the product or service provided by such suppliers.
However, a relatively unexplored precondition is the willingness of suppliers to invest in their customers' innovative efforts.
They aggregate the willingness of suppliers to sell their excess capacity (cars, equipment, vacant rooms, handyman skills) through a centralized platform and then resell them to users, all while collecting a cut off the top and valuable data for further commercial exploitation.
When customers have a particularly close relationship with one specific supplier, customers would have the willingness to pay higher prices where the supplier provides a valuable product [41].
That they tended to go for the fanciful delivery shouldn't outweigh their willingness to be suppliers as well as finishers, part of the whole and not individuals.
Given a choice of power suppliers, consumers have shown a willingness to pay up to 20percentt more for "green" power -- energy from renewable sources produced in environmentally benign ways, mostly hydropower.
Yet the companies hereabouts are hard to match for their remarkable agility at solving problems, in part because their independence and small size makes them nimble but also because of their willingness to share suppliers and manufacturing experience with one another.
