Manufacturing’s Growth Engine Sputters

Our View: The biggest driver of manufacturing decline,
weak consumer activity, is weighing
heavily on manufacturing.

And
as
government spending is retracted, already bleak consumer spending could get
bleaker.
For procurement organizations, inflexibility
around contracts is also creating pain points in supplier relationships. Organizations should


identify and correct any high cost-to-serve burden
that they impose on suppliers to improve end-to-end supply chain costs.