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One motivation for the question on success criteria was to see if we could observe differences between
the importance of price and quality depending on industry or place in supply chain. We assumed that
price will be more important for products and services that are more standardised and in industries
that are more mature.
Figure 5-23 shows that there is only a small difference between OWP and PV
on price as a criterion. Moreover
, figure 5-24shows that there are only minor variations within the PV
supply chain.
Figure 5-24 Importance of price as success criteria for PV firms, split between system firms and all other PV firms (n=48).
Respondents listed the two most important criteria in prioritised order, based on a pre-defined list.
However, when we look at the OWP supply chain i
n figure 5-25,we can see that firms that deliver to
metocean, survey and subsea
and
R&D and consultancy
rely less on price compared to other parts of
the supply chain.
Figure 5-25 Importance of price as success criteria, spread across OWP supply chain (n=99).
Respondents listed the two most important criteria in prioritised order, based on a pre-defined list.
Most of the firms in these parts of the OWP supple chain deliver services, and we can see from
figure 5-26below that the relative importance of price and quality also varies depending on whether the
respondents deliver manufactured products or services.
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
All other PV firms
PV system firms
Price most important
Price second most important
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
Other
O&M
R&D, Consultancy and IT
Metocean, survey and subsea
Logistics, installations & vessels
Electrical & Grid
Foundations
Topside
Price most important
Price second most important