If you can oversee a convoy or millions of dollars of assets in Iraq, you can help a business back home manage their supply chain or balance their books.
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Let me tell you something -- if you can save a life on the battlefield, you can save a life in an ambulance. (Applause.) If you can oversee a convoy or millions of dollars of assets in Iraq, you can help manage a supply chain or balance its books here at home.
Giving Buffalo Wild Wings a boost in pursuing the locations is the chain's balance sheet.
With its selling savvy and clean balance sheet, the 181-store chain posted an impressive 12.8% same-store sales gain over the past year.
By supplying algorithms to balance all the variables of a supply chain, such as product prices, stock levels and customer demand, they are following in the footsteps of i2, the market leader in supply-chain management.
To address these risks, companies should consider their operating models, in an effort designed to define an optimum balance between financial efficiency and assuredness of a stable supply chain.
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U.S. economic data due for release Tuesday includes the weekly Goldman Sachs and Johnson Redbook chain store sales reports, the international trade balance, Treasury international capital flows, and the NAHB housing index.
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Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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"We thought they could distribute Boots products through the Alliance chain, " she says, adding that Alliance also had a healthy balance sheet.
Smart Balance on Aug. 3, acquired Glutino Food Group, the leader in the gluten-free food chain.
Levering the balance sheet pulled in the roof of the whole western economy and now going too far up the value chain and being the brand just might pull in the walls.
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