For manufacturers who want to reduce cost, improve performance, and bring innovative products to market, sourcing and engineering teams should be a match made in heaven. Sourcing can help engineering avoid costly redesigns by sharing what’s possible to make in today’s market, while engineering can help sourcing get a head start in finding the suppliers with the right capabilities to make products at cost and at scale.

But it often doesn’t happen that way. Today we’re discussing what holds back procurement and engineering teams from reaching their full potential together. It’s all about communication in the second of our series of conversations between Spencer Penn, the CEO of LightSource, and aPriori’s Director of Product Marketing, Chris Jeznach.