The low-cost country sourcing backlash is sure to continue on this news that Fisher-Price is recalling 1 million toys due to lead paint used by a Chinese supplier.

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Services supplier selection by small businesses isn’t necessarily a mainstream news topic, but yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette included a thoughtful piece on how a small business can source services such as legal and accounting services. Interestingly, sourcing professional services is a a topic that even large companies with sophisticated commodity sourcing processes struggle with due to the somewhat intangibility of quality measures of those services.