When supply chains break, the consequences can quickly become disastrous.
While pharmaceutical companies are not the sole parties to blame when drug supply chains break down, they certainly play a role by relying almost completely on local aid and governmental organizations to distribute drugs.
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In other words, this movie broadcasts that breaking your supply chain can break your business.
Without confirming reports of the missile shipment, Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov said the supply of missiles did not break any international rules.
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They should also push for the separation of production from distribution, and for the break-up of supply monopolies.
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The Tokyo metropolitan government is trying to break its contract to supply power to the Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Other emergency plans call for letting huge tracts of farmland lie fallow to ensure a 50-day supply, in hopes that the drought will break.
Ruiz, speaking at a Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) technology conference yesterday, said that in recent months he has focused on tightening the company's supply chain, boosting its capitalization and reducing break-even levels, in part by lowering fixed costs.
Overall, the fundamental forecasts for 2013 look too benign to lead to any call of a major break from the same pricing pattern and supply-demand pattern of 2011 and 2012.
When a cartel artificially restricts supply of a good, there's a temptation for individual states to break off and sell more.
For as we talk about it breaking up people are moving their money out of the southern countries likely to leave it (and thus shrinking the local money supply) and this very action makes it more likely that the euro will break up.
C. startup trying to build microgrids in the U.S. A city with robust microgrids could break this 15 percent barrier by giving neighborhoods and utilities the flexibility to supply, store, and use local power in several ways.
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Wong's big break came in 1981, when Sears, Roebuck approached him to develop and supply an electronic learning product to teach basic skills like spelling and math.
It is now campaigning against the indefinite expansion of the money supply, and it has started taking measures to limit the losses it would sustain in a break-up.
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The tepid supply forecasts for non-OPEC oil producers in 2013 are not strong enough to represent any break in the fundamentals that would be unmanageable for OPEC to chip in and cover.
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