This slide describes the Bargaining Power of Suppliers force of the Porter’s Five Forces Framework. Suppliers of inputs for the firm (raw materials, labor, services and components) can be a source of power when there are few or none substitutes. Suppliers not only can refuse to supply, but can make the inputs inaccessible through high prices or low quality.
Potential factors affecting this force are:
- Cost of switch of supplier
- Differentiation of input resources
- Impact of inputs in product/service differentiation
- Existence of inputs substitutes and their price
- Distribution Channel
- Supplier competition
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