This level of customization will be accomplished thanks to PENTAX's unique supply chain management process, its team of committed customer service representatives and its progressive retail partners.
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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 gains are possible because Esquel owns a vertically integrated supply chain and manufacturing process which extends from cotton farming, spinning, knitting, weaving, and apparel production, and then all the way to retailing.
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As a business model, there is a lot of inefficiency built into the supply chain and replenishment process for these street vendors, since they reside a few notches down in the distribution system from the regular brick and mortar merchants with whom they compete.
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No longer does a supply chain consist of a simple process from factory to warehouse to delivery (if indeed it ever did).
In supply chains such a process is done by closing the loop by pairing the process of forward (forward supply chain) with reverse logistic (reverse supply chain).
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The fact that Qualcomm registered a 28% uptick in sales for the full FY 2012 despite not meeting demand due to supply chain issues with the 28nm manufacturing process underscores the fundamentals of the market in which it operates.
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This means that as additional activities are outsourced, the supply chain turns from a single integrated process, performed within the boundaries of traditional corporations, to a fragmented and disintegrated process, a collection of separate and disjointed activities performed across several independent subcontractors.
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This means that as more and more activities are outsourced, the supply chain turns from a single integrated process performed within the boundaries of traditional corporations to a fragmented and disintegrated process, a collection of separate and disjointed activities, performed across several independent subcontractors.
Yum added that it was in the process of reviewing its supply chain management and would also launch a "brand reputation" campaign to re-assure customers of "our high quality food".
Inflation, they said, was caused by high commodity prices pushing up energy and food costs, while supply-chain disruptions in Japan were in the process of being solved.
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The great of outsourcing productive process may be ending so the supply chain may in 2013 carry a greater domestic component than in 2008.
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Its first product, 3Dpartsource.com, a visual component-sourcing platform for industry, has the potential to disrupt the age-old sourcing process for parts in the manufacturing supply chain.
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That process continued as Dell outsourced the management of its supply chain, and then the design of its computers themselves.
Yeung says his discussions with the supply chain suggest that all of the major PC makers have ultrabook designs in process.
The goal is to hold them accountable by having them scrutinize their supply chain practices to ensure that no filthy water is seeping into waterways somewhere in the process from chemical to laptop.
While other business processes like distribution have improved by leaps and bounds thanks to supply-chain technology innovation and that old stalwart, Six Sigma, the revenue process is still one of the most inefficient areas of enterprise today.
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"In reality, we have issues within the supply chain because there are several systems out there, and we have breaks within the data process, " said Reinhold Wawrzynek, chief executive of Mobiwork AG, a Munich-based system-software provider in the textile industry.
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