If the administration is trying to cultivate a new industry by leveling a playing field, it needs to focus on demand creation and not try to manage supply.
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In this it was even ahead of Boeing and Airbus, both now scrambling to transform themselves from rich-world exporters into global producers, with long, difficult-to-manage supply chains spanning the world.
Manufacturers that take a wider, more holistic perspective across operations can better manage complex supply chains.
And to solve it, companies need to rethink the way they manage their supply chains.
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Business professor Serguei Netessine of the Wharton School adds that online sellers like Amazon must manage the supply chain more dynamically.
Energy storage, such as using trailers of batteries, to store renewable electricity also will help utilities manage the supply and demand of solar and wind.
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If you can oversee a convoy or millions of dollars of assets in Iraq, you can help a business back home manage their supply chain or balance their books.
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If Nibco would share with Dow more details about its business, Dow would in essence manage the supply of resin pellets Nibco buys to make plastic to inject into pipe fittings.
The trade could grow even more quickly than that over the next few years, thanks partly to the pace at which China's foreign trade is growing, and partly to the speed with which its companies are switching to containers and learning to manage their supply chains more efficiently.
Let me tell you something -- if you can save a life on the battlefield, you can save a life in an ambulance. (Applause.) If you can oversee a convoy or millions of dollars of assets in Iraq, you can help manage a supply chain or balance its books here at home.
Increasingly however, many companies are re-establishing the balance between risk and cost focus as they manage their global supply chain.
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Define and manage requirements to supply SIS Unit with comprehensible requests by defining scope and business priorities for small-scale changes.
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For this reason, we recommend establishing a material crisis management room, analogous to a war room, to monitor and manage exposure to supply and revenue-stream disruptions.
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The goal was to develop a secure, online auto parts exchange that would make it easier and less costly for carmakers to manage their complex supply chains.
It all depends on whether they manage to ramp back up supply.
Mackays said MEG Renewables would own and project-manage sites, ensuring continuity of supply throughout a site's operational lease.
And you need to budget for people who understand how to manage cross-cultural differences in the supply groups.
If given the choice of only being able to move one application to the cloud, most respondents would choose storage (25%), followed by enterprise resource planning applications to manage HR, customer relationship management, supply chain management, and project management systems (20%).
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While today's global supply chain can be tough to manage, software now alerts companies to ordering or delivery problems.
In the future, power and utility companies will set up partnerships with thousands of businesses to help manage their energy flows in their production processes, supply chains, and logistics networks.
This grid was initially a struggle to manage, because the middleware the software that handles supply and demand of resources on the grid effectively, as well as security and the other niceties that a distributed system entails had been cobbled together from various academic projects, and was not mature.
It also provides surveillance to help hospitals manage data that identifies and tracks healthcare associated infections and automate central supply workflow with instrument, repair and sterilization management.
Since there was only a finite supply of gold unlike dollars which could be printed to manage fiscal policy there was significant concern.
His appointment followed a long search by head-hunters for someone able to manage a company that will inevitably become more complex as it grows and its supply chain lengthens.
Until now, the government has argued for road tolls largely as a way to manage demand, but Sir Rod will almost certainly go further, making the case for new supply as well.
The company can manage its profit margins by raising prices on select items and by using a more flexible inventory and supply chain model to respond to cost pressures and new opportunities as they arise.
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If there was any doubt left about the impact of globalization of the supply chain, the news this month should make it crystal clear: supply chains today are attenuated and extremely vulnerable to repercussions from events far outside the control of those who manage and rely on them.
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