Or alternate variations that improve supply chain efficiency?
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But the Internet is young, and most development work has been done to improve the supply side of the marketplace.
To put it another way, Laidlaw says Centrica needs to generate the extra dosh to maintain and improve its supply network.
An obscure merchant from Arkansas, Sam Walton, figured out how to use computers and communications to improve his supply chain and get closer to the customer.
Direct efforts to improve the supply of credit to companies - including by making the banking sector more competitive - might well fall into this category.
"It hit me like a bolt out of the blue, " he recalls: A franchise system would be a way to maintain standards and improve the supply chain.
The cut in the duration and value of benefits may do something to improve the supply side of Germany's labour market, encouraging people to look for jobs rather than subsisting on state pay-outs.
Changes to employment law, it is argued, would improve the supply of suitable staff to firms, who would be less afraid of having to make large payouts or face legal action when laying off those who are no longer needed.
The government pitched the further opening of retail as a way to improve India's supply chain, increase consumer choice, and help farmers.
Apple has announced it's working to improve conditions at its supply-chain plants, and CEO Tim Cook visited a Foxconn factory earlier this year.
Improve the local food supply, and it switches to producing daughters.
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The Federal Reserve uses quantitative easing, a policy of buying bonds, to increase the money supply and improve liquidity in the financial system in the hope of sparking economic growth and supporting employment.
Last month, after a Ceres-led dialogue with labor and human rights groups, NGOs, suppliers and other companies, Levi Strauss released a new blueprint for supply chain engagement that promises deeper efforts to improve the lives and well-being of its supply chain workers, and challenges and inspires other companies to do the same.
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NGOs to support corporate codes that improve working conditions across global supply chains.
It also implemented a new merchandising strategy to better meet customer demands, and it transformed its supply chain to improve product availability.
Mr Bush and his team have exhausted most of their legislative energy (not to mention the government's tax revenues) on measures they claim will improve the economy's supply-side potential, such as a cut in dividend taxes.
Renegotiated supply agreements will radically improve company gross margins and Mr. Pyatt has also made significant overhead reductions.
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But with global economic activity more likely to improve than decline and with the supply of ships diminishing, the worst may be over.
Drummond Modley, from Wessex Water, said the pipeline was needed to improve the "security of water supply" for 88, 000 customers in Wiltshire, Dorset and Somerset.
Joining Mr Jones, Kath Palmer from the government's housing directorate said that the need to increase supply as well as improve community housing in Wales was an issue.
But Sir Mervyn has previously said that the government should not rely solely on monetary policy to nurse the economy back to health, and that more should be done on the supply side to help improve the UK's ability to produce goods and services.
"Through fair trade, we have been able to develop our community with investments in our water supply, and ways to improve our living conditions, " he said.
Architects and engineers, who might improve building and design, are in short supply.
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The LED light is a semiconductor chip that requires another chip, called an LED driver, to supply stable power to LEDs, improve electrical efficiency and regulate performance.
We expect EBITDA margin for American Eagle stores to fall in the near term, but then improve in the longer term, with stabilizing supply and demand for cotton.
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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First, and most important, agencies are to utilize, to the extent permitted by law, the Statement of Energy Effects in their decisionmaking to improve the quality of agency actions affecting energy supply, distribution, or use.
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With demand for higher education outstripping supply, they have little incentive to improve.
Just Shea is the change she hopes will improve the safety of women collecting shea nuts and develop supply and storage links in order to boost returns.
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