Historically, software suppliers distributed patches on paper tape or on punched cards, expecting the recipient to cut out the indicated part of the original tape ( or deck ), and patch in ( hence the name ) the replacement segment.

Old stocks of new 128MB cards can be obtained from specialist suppliers while their supplies last.

Murphy Aircraft President Darryl Murphy also explained that the company will only manufacture kits in batches once sufficient numbers of orders have been accumulated to justify a production run and that standard aircraft hardware parts, like rivets and bolts would be shipped directly from the suppliers to customers to save costs.

In the market place Jews have in fact under various circumstances been valued customers and suppliers, or clannish monopolists and cutthroat competitors.

In part as a result, numerous studies have indicated that the procurement volume must be sufficiently high to provide sufficient profits to attract enough suppliers, and provide buyers with enough savings to cover their additional costs.

Monopolies, monopsonies and oligopolies are all situations such that one or a few of the entities have market power and therefore interact with their customers ( monopoly ), suppliers ( monopsony ) and the other companies ( oligopoly ) in a game theoretic manner – meaning that expectations about their behavior affects other players ' choice of strategy and vice versa.

Other, lesser, commodities do not have international clearing houses and benchmark prices, with most prices negotiated between suppliers and customers one-on-one.

However, a more careful examination of the existing literature leads to a more comprehensive understanding of what should be the key critical supply chain components, the " branches " of the previous identified supply chain business processes, that is, what kind of relationship the components may have that are related to suppliers and customers.

Providers that have adopted a national pricing strategy may experience widely varying margins as their suppliers, the Bell operating companies ( e. g., Verizon, AT & T and Qwest ), maintain geographic pricing models, albeit at wholesale prices.

This type of construction can also be seen as an effort by printer manufacturers to stem third party ink cartridge assembly replacements, as these would-be suppliers don't have the ability to manufacture specialized print heads.

The high cost of OEM ink cartridges and the intentional obstacles to refilling them have been addressed by the growth of third-party ink suppliers.

They are also wary of the negotiating power that large, often multinational retailers have with suppliers around the world.

Some critics have questioned the ethical and legal propriety of slotting fee payments and their effect on smaller suppliers.

U. S. military sporting arms suppliers have tried to perfect electronic firing, which replaces the conventional firing pin and primer with an electrical ignition system wherein an electrical charge ignites the primer.

As MRO involves working with an organization ’ s products, resources, suppliers and customers, MRO packages have to interface with many enterprise business software systems ( PLM, EAM, ERP, SCM, CRM ).

Nash and Saxon seem to have worked as building contractors and suppliers of building materials.

Since 1999, two major distribution centers, four tier 1 automotive suppliers and most recently Pharmavite, the global leader in the manufacturering and the distribution of dietary supplements, have located within the park.

The high prices were considered ironic considering that Alaska is one of the main suppliers of oil in the United States, but have the highest state average due to scattered villages throughout Alaska such as Lime Village making it difficult to transport oil and other goods.

The other provinces are small markets and have not attracted suppliers.

A number of other suppliers have recently adopted the same approach.

Defense suppliers and the military appear to have the opposite problem, with cost overruns occurring quite often.

The resolutions to these legal matters have often altered the way the company interacts and negotiates contracts with its suppliers and franchisees, or how it does business with the public.

Even though the A-2 is still a military-requisitioned item and contracts have been awarded to other USA suppliers using the A-2 pattern, the Cooper label is considered collectible and highly sought after by World War II re-enactors and historians.

As a result, a many suppliers factories have opened in the city of Puebla.

They do not have to be baked in Cornwall, nor do the ingredients have to come from the county, though the Cornish Pasty Association noted that there are strong links between pasty production and local suppliers of the ingredients.

Some derailleur suppliers have produced a chain with a fast-release link, made with straight plates to suit their derailleur products.

Many countries have now liberalized the electricity market where these risks, and the risk of cheaper competitors emerging before capital costs are recovered, are borne by plant suppliers and operators rather than consumers, which leads to a significantly different evaluation of the economics of new nuclear power plants .< ref name = MIT-2003 >

The suppliers are individuals, who try to sell ( supply ) their labor for the highest price.

When demand exceeds supply, suppliers tend to raise their prices, but when supply exceeds demand, suppliers will tend to decrease their prices in order to make sales.

In 1949, the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, and Romania founded the Comecon in accordance with Stalin's desire to enforce Soviet domination of the lesser states of Central Europe and to mollify some states that had expressed interest in the Marshall Plan, and which were now, increasingly, cut off from their traditional markets and suppliers in Western Europe.

In the same example as above if a health care system buys the ambulance services from their service suppliers is an example of vertical buying.

This change was an attempt to redress a major imperfection in the Soviet foreign trade regime: the lack of contact between Soviet end users and suppliers and their foreign partners.

The suppliers are individuals, who try to sell their labor for the highest price.

* Market incentives for agricultural suppliers willing to respect their workers ’ human rights, even when those rights are not guaranteed by law ;

Large networks of specialized parts suppliers from around the world support these manufacturers, who sometimes provide only the initial design and final assembly in their own plants.

:[...] software suppliers can make it much harder for you to switch to their competitors ' products.

In western countries, cases of bribery and other forms of corruption in all possible fields exist: under-the-table payments made to reputed surgeons by patients attempting to be on top of the list of forthcoming surgeries, bribes paid by suppliers to the automotive industry in order to sell low-quality connectors used for instance in safety equipment such as airbags, bribes paid by suppliers to manufacturers of defibrillators ( to sell low-quality capacitors ), contributions paid by wealthy parents to the " social and culture fund " of a prestigious university in exchange for it to accept their children, bribes paid to obtain diplomas, financial and other advantages granted to unionists by members of the executive board of a car manufacturer in exchange for employer-friendly positions and votes, etc.

As testament to their longevity, and that of the equipment which used them, in 2006 several suppliers still provide common Nixie-tube types as service-replacement parts, new in original packaging.

Both suppliers split their territory along the Elbe river, with Heli handling the clients to the west and Testa those to the east.

The future of the channel was put into question when it was announced that three of its major suppliers of films Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Lions Gate Entertainment, as well as their respected subsidiaries ( Paramount Vantage and United Artists ), would be teaming up together to form a new premium movie channel.

It was also argued that the party should be an elite body of professional revolutionaries dedicating their lives to the cause and carrying out their decisions with iron discipline, thus moving toward putting loyal party activists in charge of new and old political institutions, army units, factories, hospitals, universities, and food suppliers.

Often, these businesses owe money to suppliers and to tax authorities, and the proprietors do not withdraw all their original capital and profits at the end of each period.