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If a supplier pays his workers a little more or offers better benefits that force prices up a bit Toyota, Honda and the others just get a new supplier and the entire company goes belly up.
Sounds to me like in this scenario the supplier that went belly up is at fault. A company that puts itself in a situation that allows them to go belly up with the loss of a single customer deserves what it got. It's just bad business sense.
We are seeing a similar situation with Wal-Marts vendors. Analysts don't rate company's well if a majority of their business comes from Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart (like the Auto manufacturer above) are known to pull the plug on an entire product line if a competing product can be sourced cheaper. If you put all of your eggs in one basket, at some point they are going to all break.
Learning from my mistakes... again and again.
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