Allying with suppliers to improve quality and reduce costs.
The Quality Letter invited Eastman Kodak Company to sponsor this issue because of the company's interest in changing customer-supplier relationships from price-based purchasing agreements to true partnerships. This article describes how hospitals view their changing relationship with Kodak and other suppliers and how these newly emerging customer-supplier partnerships are working.
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Baptist Hospital, Nashville, TN, USA.
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