Two things we hear constantly from suppliers, almost word for word: "Can you handle this buyer for us, they don't pay on time and they're too much effort to deal with." And its quieter cousin: "We stopped working with that buyer. Too much effort to deal with." Neither of those is about price, or product, or service quality. It's slow payment stacked on top of red tape: too many approvals, too many hoops, too long to actually get the work moving. Individually survivable. Toget