Through technology, performance was visible in real time across the supply chain organization.
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The Hong Kong Futures Exchange has warned the territory's 30 information providers not to supply Simex with real-time stock market data.
It does supply lots of real-time economic data, but only when those numbers are compiled and dispatched directly by computers--the computers that process stock trades, for example.
Even the small and mid-sized manufacturing operation is now part of a global network of loosely coupled entities that must collaborate and deliver real-time status information to customers, supply chain partners, organization leaders, and employees.
In response, leaders in manufacturing must place greater importance on transparency in the demand and supply chain gaining a real-time view of global operations, and engaging their entire workforce in improved decision making.
The big idea: putting sensors everywhere that communicate in a mesh network and allow real-time tracking and optimization of everything from traffic to the power grid to the water supply.
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There are pilot projects to do this in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique, but it will take time before the quantity and quality of their production can make a real dent in the supply problem.
The next phase of our growth will be driven in significant measure by the completion of that integration, the creation of a single and indissoluble news organization uniquely equipped to supply a continuous stream of scoops, analysis, features and penetrating investigations: in real time, on our digital platforms and in the newspaper, to a global audience of hundreds of millions.
With the shadow inventory down 14.8% in the year to April to 1.5 million (four months supply), residential real estate markets are no longer dragging on growth, but for the first time since 2005 will actually add to output expansion, Bovino explained.
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