Sometimes Breaking Up is hard to Do

摘要

You're fired!" That's what many job shops would like to tell customers who have a hard time making payments. The urge is all the more pronounced considering rising materials and energy costs as well as growing competition from low-cost suppliers. When customers are late or negligent paying their bills, cash flow is constricted and relationships become strained. Metal finishers can ill afford to carry customers on their backs by fronting materials and labor costs during precarious times, observers say. These companies are already having enough trouble making ends meet.