Willis A K
Ann Willis Associates, Mooresville, NC, USA.
Hosp Mater Manage Q. 1998 Feb;19(3):15-22.
Today's global competition mandates that each customer-supplier combination achieve a balance between the supplier's manufacturing flexibility and the customer's schedule stability. Sharing valid schedules, working on quality together, reducing each other's costs, and streamlining communications allows a customer and supplier to become true enterprise partners.