They manage their manufacturing chain superbly (Tim Cook having been largely responsible for that build up).
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Under the terms of its code of practice for suppliers, Primark prohibits the use of child labour in its manufacturing chain.
Back then it at least had intuitive plausibility, but today it is obviously false given that the manufacturing chain spans the whole globe.
Over the past decade or so the just-in-time concept of having supplies delivered at the last minute, so as to keep inventories down, has spread down the global manufacturing chain.
Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Davey said the development would "give confidence to our domestic manufacturing supply chain".
This could reduce productivity if it damaged the global manufacturing supply chain, which often involves multi-national companies ordering many of their key components from overseas.
That would bolster the global market for these precious commodities, reducing costs from raw materials all the way across the manufacturing supply chain, and ultimately to consumers.
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Its first product, 3Dpartsource.com, a visual component-sourcing platform for industry, has the potential to disrupt the age-old sourcing process for parts in the manufacturing supply chain.
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This makes me wonder why Tim Cook was so widely viewed as a manufacturing and supply chain guru.
In 2000, she was named senior vice president, Corporate Strategic Services, heading up manufacturing and supply chain operations.
Our region offers a strong manufacturing and supply chain base, world-class research facilities, a highly-skilled workforce, and economic development organizations that foster innovation and entrepreneurship.
It is restructuring its supply-chain and manufacturing network in Australia as part of its global productivity plan.
Rather, the drop in commodity prices in 2008 will soon show up in lower manufacturing and supply-chain costs.
It will set up a global supply chain with manufacturing hubs in such places as Portugal, Morocco and Sri Lanka.
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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Liam Casey, CEO of manufacturing and supply-chain management company PCH International Ltd.
As a result, the industry growth clusters (aviation, specialized business services, life sciences, innovative manufacturing, and supply chain and logistics) have been gaining traction in our metro area.
He has streamlined manufacturing and supply-chain for the organization and, in addition, he has actually had time in the job through interim CEO roles during Jobs several medical absences.
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The gains are possible because Esquel owns a vertically integrated supply chain and manufacturing process which extends from cotton farming, spinning, knitting, weaving, and apparel production, and then all the way to retailing.
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Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
The fundamental model we teach MBAs for thinking about manufacturing is the value chain, a simple model that describes the value adding steps that take a low value material like iron ore and turn it into a high value product like a Ferrari Testarossa.
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But the emergence of China as a powerhouse producing a variety of manufacturing goods at very cheap prices thanks to the large scale and skilful exploitation of the supply chain means that not all manufacturing jobs will be transferred from China to Africa.
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Through a restructuring plan, Avon has downsized the company aimed at improving supply-chain and global manufacturing efficiencies.
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Talk to your customers, global supply chain people, manufacturing people, sales people, and others to get their opinions about the risks and benefits of your plan.
The country could do the job itself, shortening the supply chain and returning manufacturing jobs to America in industries where petrochemicals are a large part of the cost base.
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This may be the crucial test for Mr Dell who, after all, gave his name not just to the firm but to a whole business model (just-in-time, made-to-order manufacturing using an outsourced supply chain), key elements of which have since been adopted by his competitors.
Can they gain better visibility of the manufacturing floor and across the supply chain?
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