That includes strict adherence to the military chain of command, and respect for civilian control over that chain of command.
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In the past two years, Apple has taken great strides to source minerals responsibly and control their supply chain.
The incentive to control the whole chain already exists, though.
The first half of 2013 will be a time when self-assessed delivery, customer and consumer communication and angel experience in quality control and supply chain operations will become key topics.
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Apple is noted for control over its supply chain and expertise in operations engineering.
Besides, a company might want to keep control of its supply chain to protect its brand and knowledge.
The world's largest retailer plans to pay about a billion dollars for control of a Chinese chain called Trust-Mart.
Pritzker bought control of boutique hotel chain Joie de Vivre in 2010 via his San Francisco investment firm Geolo Capital.
The chain of control will be geographic -- as it already is in Europe, which grew 29% in the first quarter.
So why would Apple, known for meticulous control of its supply chain, stay quiet when someone has invaded its distribution network in China?
He and his lieutenants pressed caution on their suppliers, spot-checked shipments and built a web of foreign subsidiaries to gain more control over the supply chain, according to former employees and business associates.
Fab.com plans to improve shipping even further by doubling its 50-person tech team in the next year in order to have more control over the supply chain, including hard-to-ship products, the company told Forbes in May.
Increasingly, the industry is integrating vertically and firms are gaining control over the entire value chain.
They must rigorously monitor and control their business and supply chain practices to assure this does not happen again.
This not only regulated activity in a tightly planned economy, but was also a vital link in the chain of social control.
At a very fundamental level, to the extent that they can, they should aim to control as much of the value chain as possible, from raw materials and creation through sales and consumption.
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But in 1996 he won control of Southam, Canada's largest chain, known for its loose management and its flabby, middle-of-the-road, publications.
Also, it can cut down on lead times, reduce inventory levels, diminish some currency risks, increase control over intellectual property, and reduce supply chain disruption risks.
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Shari Redstone owns the other 20% of National Amusements, which in turn owns voting control of Viacom and CBS. The cinema chain operates more than 100 theaters in the U.S., Latin America, England and Russia.
Executives sometimes think that control of a particular part of the value chain guarantees success, but the stage of history is littered with dominant companies that collapsed or were forced to change as their playscripts fell apart.
The romantic twist on all this is that many fans of Luton and Bradford have tasted the top flight in their lifetimes and are now stuck lower down the food chain largely for events beyond their control.
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The Alpha chain will be controlled from a joint control center, with teams from the mine, railroad and port sitting in a single place to optimize results.
If your data is currency such as access control to various amounts of bitcoin on the block chain, then you have surrendered your financial transaction history and potentially the value itself.
To this day, different militia often control the mines, selling the minerals into the global supply chain.
Its ingenious production control is a hat tip to Tim Cook who built the supply chain over a decade.
In 1992 he became Russia's prime minister, and control of Gazprom was assumed by his deputy, Rem Vyakhirev, a chain-smoking Soviet-style bureaucrat, whose first name stood for Revolution, Engels, Marx.
However Prof Pennington did praise the work of the outbreak control team, saying they reacted quickly to remove cooked meats from the food chain.
Further, the firm will also try to control costs by trying to improve contract management, expand a globally coordinated supply chain initiative and reduce energy consumption, among other targets, Rollinson said.
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At the time its assets included control of Air New Zealand and Thistle Hotels, Britain's largest hotel chain, as well as stakes in companies in Europe, the US, Australia, New Zealand and Asia.
As they get more familiar with the hotel industry, more owners are opting for franchising, a system in which they pay for a chain's name, reservation network and marketing, but manage and control the hotels themselves.
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