Purchasing - May 2, 2002
Features
Distributors play to raves & pans
Industrial buyers are, on the surface, very satisfied with the performance of their distributor suppliers. Sixty-seven percent of respondents to PURCHASING's 2002 comprehensive survey on distributor performance rate overall distributor service levels as either good or excellent. This represents a slight improvement from 2000 when 66% rated distributor performance as either good or excellent an...
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