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Insurance as a Commodity: Buyer Beware
Finance for Non-Finance Managers
July 2015
There’s a time-tested, proven way to buy raw material for your product: contact three vendors, give them all the same request for quotation (RFQ), and ask for their best price and availability. It can work so well that some manufacturers use this same method to buy their insurance.