Give a franchise to a single supplier for (a particular product)
companies now single-source many of their bought-in components
no object we never single-source
Example sentencesExamples
- Ford took a risk by single-sourcing the '02 Explorer's interior trim.
- It is an excellent analysis of the technical hole Apple has worked itself into by single-sourcing its chips from USS Clueless.
- The Focus' front and rear suspensions are both single-sourced from Benteler as modules and supplied to Ford worldwide.
- And even much of that was single-sourced, and often to unreliable sources.
- But if it's a low-volume product, it may make sense to single-source.