Lowe's, the big hardware store chain, began developing a Teradata warehouse over the past year.

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David Walker, senior vice president of logistics, says that electronic monitoring of items from point of origin to the warehouse could boost the chain's operating margin from 11.5% to 12.5%.

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No longer does a supply chain consist of a simple process from factory to warehouse to delivery (if indeed it ever did).

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The U.S. Supreme Court did that 30 years ago in the context of federal regulations, finding the chief executive of a 30, 000-employee grocery chain liable for allowing rodents to infest a Baltimore warehouse.

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