Partnership sourcing-love match or shotgun wedding?

The concept of developing a long-term close business relationship between customer and supplier can-and does-raise deep suspicions. Here, the author describes how, fired with true missionary zeal, Partnership Sourcing Ltd., an independent body backed jointly by the CBI and the Department of Trade and Industry, has been operating successfully over the past five years to promote the benefits of its radical-sounding philosophy to British industry.<>