Supplier Relationships & Unethical Behavior: long term relationships

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  Unethical behavior is always only a short-term advantage.

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  In the absence of trust, no business relationship can continue for a long period of time. Thus, trust provides a strong platform for sustaining long term and fruitful business relationships.

• Ethical relationships with clients, suppliers, influential parties and coworkers

  Regulations such as those related to sexual harassment, racism, etc. can come into play due to unethical behavior. Similarly, maintaining ethical relationships with influential parties come under the scanner of regulations.

• Vendor/Buyer Relationship

  Long term, successful bids are most likely to result due to professional behavior and the vendor analyzing best practices in supplying the buyer.

• Operations: key factors to consider when establishing a relationship with a customer

  Partnering is a long-term relationship, usually over five years and often much longer, where customers and providers adopt long term rather than short-term views. Partnering may be suitable for: ?

• Principles for Customer - Supplier Relationship for better Quality Management, and Processes based Organization for quality Management

  The goal of building partnerships with customers and suppliers can be seen as an extension of the teamwork principle that applies to all TQ activities and as recognition that the needs of both partners must be satisfied if productive long-term relationship

• Transactional, collaborative, and collaborative and alliance

  Michael Dell is a proponent of Collaborative buyer-supply chain relationships feeling that this will increase the customer's satisfaction and build long term relationships between buyer and supplier. b.

• Wal-Mart and Ethical Behavior

  - Monitoring suppliers in part through development of long-term relationships. - Forbidding child labor, forced labor, and unfair wages. - Holding training programs to educate on ethical standards.

• company and their supplier relaionship.

  This helps establish long term relationships. Finally, the company can use information technology to continuously and precisely communicate its needs and requirements to the suppliers.