Indeed independence can be seen as the logical step in a chain of recent reforms that mark Labour's retreat from the top-down target regime.
The secret of success in this new M2M world is creating a rich ecosystem that can maximize the value and keep costs low at each step of the chain that runs from the devices all the way up back up to the data center.
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From local party hacks to the grandees of Beacon Hill, the pols are looking for a step up the food chain.
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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The next step up the TV megapixel chain is Super Hi-Vision (SHV) TV, which packs 33 megapixels per frame.
For four years, Tripeny says, the inventory of glass in each step of the LCD TV supply chain increased.
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Further, HP was the first in its sector to publish details about its supply chain, a key step towards increased transparency.
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After seeing the collection of the nuts in Janga Town the day before, we were now getting to witness the processing of the nuts into butter, the next critical step in global shea nut supply chain.
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The next step is to create cafes inside the chain following a successful trial.
Tariff escalation is, in effect, a tax on every step a country takes along the value chain.
As the name implies, the atom transfer step is the key step in the reaction responsible for uniform polymer chain growth.
They also missed the costs and risks of an international supply chain, which is increasingly out of step with the shorter, faster product cycles.
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While Nobu has become a worldwide chain of sorts it has hardly lost a step.
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As the unrivaled global technology leader, Apple needs to step up its pressure on Foxconn and raise its supply chain standards to remedy labor injustices.
But empowering end users is just one step in an end-to-end analytics value chain, which consists of cleaning data, storing it, preparing it for analysis, monitoring data for key events as it arrives, capturing knowledge in rules-based playbooks, delivering subsets to those who need it, and giving them the tools to analyze it.
"This investment marks the next step on its journey to becoming part of the global aerospace supply chain, " she said.
And they are step 1 of a long journey to a more vibrant and rational food chain.
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If you do, you are about to get one step closer to BPA-free shopping thanks to a proactive move by the supermarket chain to ban BPA from its canned foods and receipts.
Scan-as-you-go mobile devices are a logical next step after the self-checkout lanes that are now common in big food and drug chain stores.
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