[VERIFIED] Q2 2026 approved vendor directory

anders_CPH said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

Agreed on the substance. I would put less weight on the timescale, because two months of anything is not enough to distinguish a trend from a wobble.

anders_CPH said:

It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about.

Genuinely useful, thank you. I had the facts and not the framework.

Reprising the part of this that the last few posts have moved away from:

I disagree that testing history is decisive. It tells you what a supplier did when they were being watched. Continuity of behaviour under stress — a late shipment, a failed test, a complaint — is more predictive than any run of good results.

Happy to go further on any of that.

MASHdoc_SA said:

I disagree that testing history is decisive.

Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use.

MASHdoc_SA said:

I disagree that testing history is decisive.

Coming back to something from earlier in the thread, because it keeps being talked past:

Update: the thing I was blaming turned out not to be the cause. Leaving the original post as written rather than editing it, so the mistake stays visible for whoever searches this next.