Scenario: sourcing 500 units under deadline
A tight timeline, four suppliers, and a decision you can defend to finance.
A tight timeline, four suppliers, and a decision you can defend to finance.
You need 500 machined parts in three weeks. Four suppliers respond to your RFQ. The cheapest can't hit the date; the fastest is pricey. Now what?
The responses
Weight what matters
With a hard three-week deadline, lead time is weighted heavily, quality second, price third. Two suppliers miss the date outright and drop out.
The decision
Kessler wins — not the cheapest, but the only one that hits the date at high quality, and the premium is small against the cost of missing the deadline. The scoring and the two disqualifications are logged, so when finance asks why not the cheapest, the answer is one click away.
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