Tag: Contracts

  • Contract Negotiation Deep Dive: Introductory Clauses

    Contract Negotiation Deep Dive: Introductory Clauses
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    Disclaimer: I am not an attorney and cannot give legal advice. This series is from a supply chain practitioner’s perspective on negotiating contracts and is simply offering my perspective on common contract clauses. Seek professional legal advice for your own contracts.  Today’s article kicks off a series on supplier contract negotiation, which is where I… Read more

  • Supply Chain Tools: Index-linked Pricing

    Supply Chain Tools: Index-linked Pricing
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    One of the best tools to share price risks between buyers and suppliers is index-linked pricing. Most procurement professionals have heard of and used commodity indices to tie pricing to the wider market, but in short they are a third-party tracking tool for commodity pricing. The consumer price index is a common and popular index,… Read more

  • Contracts in Focus: Understanding Contracts as Instruments of Purpose

    Contracts in Focus: Understanding Contracts as Instruments of Purpose
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    This morning as I checked my inbox, I had a survey waiting for me from World Commerce and Contracting. The survey sparked me because it asked a set of questions about the purposes of contracts, and I found my answers highly varied across the questions. I will note that I am a believer in contracts… Read more