Cost Is a Choice
The 80/20 Way to Buy Better, Spend Less, and Build Suppliers Who Make You StrongerBy Bill CanadyRecorded TrackLength5h 56m
About this audiobook
Most companies treat what they pay suppliers as a fact. It isn't.
At a company that makes or moves things, the money paid to suppliers is often half or more of every sales dollar. It is also the sum of choices — what to buy, to what specification, from whom, on what terms — most of them made years ago by people who have since moved on. A few of those choices hold most of the money.
This audiobook is narrated using a digitally recreated version of Bill Canady’s voice.
Audiobook details
GenreBusiness and Economics
Length5 hrs 56 mins
Narrated byRecorded Track
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateOct 14, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Cost Is a Choice
2Dedication
3How to Read This Book
4A Note on Names and Numbers
5Part One: See What You Buy
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6Chapter One: Cost Is a Choice
7Chapter Two: Build the Spend File
8Chapter Three: Find the Vital Few
9Chapter Four: Nobody Buys Alone
10Chapter Five: Know Your Suppliers
11Part Two: Know Before You Ask
12Chapter Six: What It Should Cost
13Chapter Seven: The Other Eighty-Three
14Chapter Eight: Prepare to Negotiate
15Part Three: Negotiate and Choose
16Chapter Nine: Tough and Fair
17Chapter Ten: Lock It In
18Chapter Eleven: Never One Fire Away
19Part Four: Make It Pay
20Chapter Twelve: Make the Switch
21Chapter Thirteen: Count Only What Lands
22Chapter Fourteen: Partners, Not Vendors
23The Short Field Guide
24The Instruments
25Acknowledgments
26About the Author
27Continue the Work
28This has been Cost Is a Choice
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