China is also placing strong emphasis on local supply of each of the key parts of the supply chain.
For years, Brazil and neighbors sought to reduce dependence on the U.S. by fortifying local industries and nurturing a regional market to supply each other with everything from energy to washing machines.
The company has made a serious push to increase fans' engagement this season, most recently offering to supply each team with 21 free buses for fans to travel from their club's home city to Wembley on Sunday.
The front page, as always, was filled with three- and four-line advertisements for Newcastle, Silkstone, or Wall's-End coal, Bailey's elastic stockings, ladies' abdominal belts, Pulvermacher's Patent Galvanic Chain Bands, Antakos corn plasters, Iceland Liniment for chilblains, and "Want Places" appeals from wet nurses, scullery maids, and cooks, each willing to supply testimonials about their skills and finer qualities.
Which means that while our wireless broadband demand grows each year, the supply does not.
The supply of each denomination depended on how much silver people took to the mint.
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Likewise, understanding each step in the supply chain, manufacturing process, and delivery will help predict how costs will change with revenues.
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Nowadays each link in the supply chain depends on all the others.
For simplicity, let's imagine getting one-third of the energy supply from each.
Some professional money managers are starting to treat commodities as a tradable asset class, which bothers some traditional investors as each commodity has different supply and demand fundamentals.
M2 velocity is a measure of how fast broadly defined money supply turns over each year.
They are also coordinating with each other to protect relief supply lines that cross their respective territories.
From semiconductors to life sciences, enterprise software to the web, each industry has created a supply of jobs.
Over the years, each iteration has had initial supply shortages, but Apple has usually been able to catch up to demand in time for the holidays.
In the past, departments such as sales, marketing, customer service, public relations, and supply chain might each have had their own data sets, which they managed separately.
The work is part of a 2009 agreement between Polo Ralph Lauren and the United States Olympic Committee to supply clothes for each of the three games.
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For four years, Tripeny says, the inventory of glass in each step of the LCD TV supply chain increased.
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The coffee supply chain example above illustrates the multiple touch points within the supply chain, and each touch point contains important information about the integrity of the cargo being shipped.
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While each of these states continues to supply assistance to its respective proxy in Cambodia, all three now appear to recognize that the war is imposing unacceptably high costs both on their reeling economies and on their international standing.
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In May I interviewed some CFOs onstage and each complained about rising costs in their supply chains.
The only hope was that real prices would bring real money, allowing supply and demand to meet each other.
The supply and demand relationship in each market determines how much of the inflation can be priced into rental rates.
That could force the Kurds to eke another 14 billion dinars-worth of economic activity each year out of the same physical supply of cash.
The Federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) continues to force refiners to sell larger amounts of corn ethanol and other biofuels each year, regardless of weather, supply demand, or cost influences.
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Shared-use systems have numerous challenges, not the least of which is balancing supply and demand for vehicles at each location.
The amount produced each year is a fraction of the outstanding supply.
Or, it may lead to the conclusion that the available dollars are better spent in tracking carbon through the supply chain (or that we need to go back and ask the CEO and CFO for more money to get an accurate view of our carbon footprint across both internal operations and the supply chain and how they affect each other).
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Meanwhile, declines in mine supply of between two and three tons each occurred in Peru, Ghana and South Africa.
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The original supply deal for the line was for each Central Asian state to contribute to supplies to China.
Electricity was in short supply - it cut out at noon each day.
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