{"id":2937,"date":"2010-09-03T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/09\/03\/when-the-going-gets-tough-the-weak-blame-their-suppliers\/"},"modified":"2021-07-27T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T13:19:05","slug":"when-the-going-gets-tough-the-weak-blame-their-suppliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/when-the-going-gets-tough-the-weak-blame-their-suppliers\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Going Gets Tough, The Weak Blame Their Suppliers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In pondering some of the topics I\u2019ve touched upon here over the years, one topic has come up multiple times. That\u2019s because it is one of my biggest procurement pet peeves.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>What is it?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s when companies blame their suppliers for problems they should have averted. Though I\u2019ve posted several examples of this bad practice, I\u2019ve never tied them all together. Well, now I\u2019ll do just that.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some links to some of the classic \u201cblame the supplier\u201d examples\u2026<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Never The Vendor\u2019s Fault<\/p>\n<p>Is Outsourcing a Convenient Excuse for CEO\u2019s (Even When Murder Is Involved)?<\/p>\n<p>Do Your Suppliers Bully You Into Compromising Safety?<\/p>\n<p>The Worst Oil Spill In History: Are Suppliers &amp; Supplier Management Practices To Blame?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In pondering some of the topics I\u2019ve touched upon here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4040,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>When The Going Gets Tough, The Weak Blame Their Suppliers - 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