In the rush of sourcing issues that threaten to pull you under like a riptide, it is worthwhile sometimes to step back and recalibrate your perspective to better understand the current sourcing environment as a necessary step in planning for the future. This might represent an ideal time for this. We're just weeks away from the end of summer -- and after Labor Day, the starting gun goes off for those remaining projects in the planning queue before the end of the fiscal year.