Many of them are running accounting or inventory management systems that are a decade old.

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American garment makers increasingly offer electronic ordering, automated distribution centres and inventory-management systems tied into those of their customers.

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Today there are hundreds of great shopping carts, billing systems, shipping systems, and inventory management suites to make the engineering orders of magnitude easier than it was a few years ago.

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Boring technology like inventory management, customer relationship and bar coding systems.

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