Simultaneously, it will seek to reduce costs through intelligent inventory management and supply chain optimization.

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Most of the world needs solutions to problems we rarely talk about, in areas like health care, agricultural production, sustainable construction, citizen activism and empowerment, childhood education, affordable transportation, supply chain optimization, community solidarity and efficacy, etc.

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He loved this job because he got to focus more on supply chain optimization than plain pharmacy, and working alongside him, I began to grasp that making a living is a necessity, but having the freedom to look at the bigger picture is a special privilege.

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"But the main story is the relatively mundane but terribly important activity in electronic procurement and supply-chain optimization" made possible by the Net.

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