Most protective coating sourcing failures don't start with a bad supplier. They start with a spec that means different things to different people—especially on ABS and fabric substrates.
A procurement manager's story of sourcing a protective coating supplier for ABS and fabric at a 200-person equipment manufacturer — what an $80,000 budget taught us about TCO spreadsheets, sample testing, and why the per-kilo price is the least reliable number in the file.