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Really for our organization we're manufacturers for the most part, so we make products, so
our largest risk right now is risk of supplying and in that a couple of different groups.
One is overall suppliers viability the other is we have some pretty stringent requirement
of some of our businesses of made in USA, so that's also a concern were that restricts
our supply base somewhat and puts us in contact with some of the smaller supplier and supply
base that aren't large corporations. From a procurement point of view strategic sourcing
really is the risk that we're looking at is overall supplier viability and be able to
make sure that we can continue to get product and ship product from the manufacturing point
of view, continues of supply. I think that's absolutely true and one of the things, as
we went through the panel I jotted down is that you have to take advantage of the market
place today. Certainly, last year we all found, and is probably the opposite, were procurement
careers were probably ruined last year based on the marketplace. This year as vigorous
as customers and as vigorous as the suppliers were gaining a price last year, we have to
be three four times as vigorous as the deflationary market place and we've seen it in all categories,
direct and indirect everything that you can think about, obviously some of the supply
basis under consolidation is a great time to go out freight is a good one right now
is a very hot market place and I think a lot of the suppliers will also talk about will
try to bring volumes into the equation, were most people volumes are down, but look at
that as noise right now and they really just have to take advantage of the marketplace,
people at the end of the day are very hungry, they need the business and as a procurement
organization we just need to go after it.