Many manufacturing firms have increase the amount of componentparts and service they outsource, while refocusing on their corecapabilities outsourcing parts and service to independent, externalsupplies means that supplies performance is increasing critical tothe long- term success of these buying firms. Buying firms areincreasingly using disparate supplier development strategies toimprove supplier performance. For this research, suppliercapabilities or both and to meet the buying firms Short-and/orlong-term supply needs. With example (s) discuss how a company orcompanies in Africa here develop their supplier
