Paying for value

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Is service quality set to suffer if VARs continue the current trend of squeezing distributors' margins until the pips squeak?

Large resellers have for a long time used annual or biannual supplier tenders to squeeze the best price out of distributors. But with these tenders becoming more widespread - and arguably more r...

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