13 May 2026
Read the contract before you change the carrier
Late deliveries are blamed on logistics. They are usually a clause nobody enforced.
Jan Kowalczyk
In Ostrava we found nineteen supplier contracts with delivery penalties that had never been invoiced. Not once, in four years. The buying team did not know the clauses were there because the contracts had been signed by someone who had since left.
Before you change a carrier, read what the suppliers promised and measure what they did. The gap between the two is where the money is.
