• The Hidden Negotiation Mistake: Discussing Price Before Structure

    • 2026-04-09
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Procurement, Supply Chain
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    Businessmen arguing over suit pricing in a tailor shop while a tailor focuses on measurements, symbolizing the negotiation mistake of discussing price before structure.
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  • When a Price Cut Is Not Really a Win: The Sourcing Mistake That Hurts Companies Later

    • 2026-04-09
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Procurement, Supply Chain
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    Business leaders in a supplier negotiation meeting with a falling price chart, handshake imagery, and supply chain visuals showing the hidden risks of price-focused sourcing decisions.
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  • Principle 1: Preparation Defines Power(B2C vs B2B negotiations)

    • 2026-03-24
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Category: Supply Chain
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    Allen Yi explains why preparation defines power in negotiation, comparing B2C emotional decision-making with B2B multi-stakeholder risk-based decisions.
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  • Teradar emerges with $150M backing to replace radar and LiDAR in autonomous vehicles

    • 2025-11-21
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Supply Chain, Transportation
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    Close-up of Teradar's new commercial terahertz vision sensor, a computer chip designed to replace radar and LiDAR in autonomous vehicles by providing high-resolution imaging through fog, rain, and snow.
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  • Strategic Relocation: Building a North American Manufacturing Presence in a Fragmented Trade World

    • 2025-05-21
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Business plans, Logistics, Procurement, Supply Chain, Transportation, Warehousing
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    Contemplating a business relocation from Asia to the US
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  • How De’Longhi is Streamlining its Parts Supply Chain

    • 2025-04-09
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Procurement, Supply Chain, Transportation
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  • Fast, Cheap, Global: The Supply Chain of Temu

    • 2025-04-08
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Logistics, Procurement, Supply Chain
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    Temu products coming across the border
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  • How Procurement Is Transforming Business in 2025 and Beyond

    • 2025-01-17
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Procurement, Supply Chain
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    Procurement in 2025
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  • Top 5 US-Mexico trade stories of 2024

    • 2024-12-27
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Logistics, Supply Chain, Transportation
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    Top 5 US-Mexico trade stories of 2024
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  • Trump’s tariffs: How manufacturers can prepare

    • 2024-11-13
    • Posted by: allen.yi
    • Categories: Economics, Supply Chain
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    A group of factory workers wearing hairnets, gloves, and protective uniforms work on an assembly line, carefully inspecting and assembling components.
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