Chris Harris & Rick Harris 
Lean Supplier Development [PDF ebook] 
Establishing Partnerships and True Costs Throughout the Supply Chain

In the global marketplace, no business is a self-contained island. No matter how effective your internal material movement, to be a future-thinking business, you must go to the next step and develop long-term supplier partnerships built on a dedication to continuous improvement and the basic concepts of Lean implementation. Lean Supplier Developmen