The advantages of the partnership strategy (based
on an analysis of the empirical evidence cited above)
for a buying firm and a supplier are presented in Table 2
These advantages could not possibly exist in a shortterm relationship based on a concurrency strategy. Of
course, there may also be drawbacks to a partnership
strategy. A major one for the buying firm would be the
difficulties and the costs associated with a change of
supplier. As for the supplier, the main disadvantage
would be the risk related to a client that doesn't fulfil
its commitments, especially when the transaction
volume of the client represents a large proportion of
the supplier's total income.