Partnership is a label given to a relationship in which the parties forego short-term opportunism and demonstrate a longer-term commitment to jointly strive for lower costs and the creation of new ways of working together to improve joint competitiveness. In a partnership, senior managers from both organisations will meet to align longer term planning and goals, and commission joint teams to work across organisational boundaries to align systems, processes and behaviours. In practice the label is sometimes used in situations that do not qualify as a partnership. It is not possible, for example, to have partnerships with every supplier in the supply base, and ‘preferred suppliers’ do not meet the criteria for a partnership. See also Partner and Win:Win.
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