Business
Five Ways to Mitigate Construction Supplier Failure
By relying on high-quality supplier data, prioritizing relationship management, and considering small and diverse suppliers, contractors should build a base of trusted suppliers that can rise to the challenge.
By Stephany Lapierre
February 2, 2021
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by Stephany Lapierre
Stephany Lapierre is the founder/CEO of Tealbook, a highly coveted supply chain thought leader, and one of the most influential minds in emerging data technologies. She has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Supply Chain, and her company, Tealbook, has both been named a Top 50 company to watch by Spend Matters and won the Cool Vendor Award by Gartner. Prior to Tealbook, Stephany spent 10 years building a successful strategic sourcing and procurement consulting firm focusing on large scale sourcing optimization projects. Given her experience and visibility into the data issues crippling procurement she has made it her mission is to deliver a ‘Trusted Source of Supplier Data’ to an ever-growing eProcurement space.
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