No longer does a supply chain consist of a simple process from factory to warehouse to delivery (if indeed it ever did).

FORBES: Ash In The Supply Chain

In simple terms a factory for manufacturing bullets!

BBC: Joseph's odyssey

In Russia's Black Sea oil port of Novorossisk, for example, a local British businessman, Clive Rumens, wanted to set up a small factory producing a simple additive that makes crude oil pour more easily.

ECONOMIST: A survey of Russia

The savings are arrestingly simple: Redesigning a standard pumping loop in one factory saved 92% of the pumping power--with lower construction cost and better performance.

FORBES: The Case For Efficiency