But individual investors such as Eric Brehm, owner of a medical-supply distribution business in Sunnyvale, Texas, were in the dark.
The Federal government can significantly affect the supply, distribution, and use of energy.
WHITEHOUSE: Memoranda 01-27 (Guidance for Implementing E.O. 13211)
"(ii) reasonable alternatives to the action with adverse energy effects and the expected effects of such alternatives on energy supply, distribution, and use" (Sec. 2(b)).
WHITEHOUSE: Memoranda 01-27 (Guidance for Implementing E.O. 13211)
Electrical power is necessary to support other critical infrastructures, including supply and distribution of water, food, fuel, communications, transport, financial transactions, emergency services, government services, and all other infrastructures supporting the national economy and welfare.
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First, and most important, agencies are to utilize, to the extent permitted by law, the Statement of Energy Effects in their decisionmaking to improve the quality of agency actions affecting energy supply, distribution, or use.
WHITEHOUSE: Memoranda 01-27 (Guidance for Implementing E.O. 13211)
But it said it now had to respond by improving efficiency and streamlining its distribution and supply business.
The combination of tight supply, dodgy municipal distribution and regulatory uncertainty should power sales of private generators for some time.
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Inergy L.P. (NRGY), an owner and operator of retail and wholesale propane supply, marketing and distribution businesses, is another example of MLP pain.
Adding vitamins and supplements can give companies more leverage when negotiating with retail pharmacies that have consolidated, as well as opportunities to make more efficient use of distribution and supply chains.
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This means forward supply partners (from distribution through to end customers) likely went into a panic ordering mode today to increase inventory and put in safety stocks in case some parts go on allocation.
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Northern Ireland Electricity was floated on the Stock Exchange and retained responsibility for transmission, distribution and the supply of power.
Naya Jeevan negotiates and buys group-health plans from insurance companies at below-market rates and leverages corporate distribution networks, supply chains, and human resources to distribute, market and co-finance the plans.
Micro-grids are an important solution: a combination of a generator and hardened distribution system can supply reliable and larger quantities of electricity to a small circuit of users including emergency services, shelters, gas stations and grocery stores.
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Supply chains are inefficient, distribution systems fragmented.
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Greenpeace asks companies to measure and reduce their greenhouse gas emissions throughout the life cycle of their products: supply chain, manufacturing, distribution, customer use, and end-of-life, using a combination of energy efficiency, renewable energy, and energy policy advocacy.
This means investment into organizational design on a global scale, establishing brand visibility, building worldwide supply chains and channels of distribution, and all of the rest of the complex set of activities that go into making a successful multinational corporation.
It also boasts the lowest birth and infant mortality rates, more hospital beds than any other state, plus the greatest per-capita supply of foodgrain through the state public distribution system.
This upside is justifiable if Apple is able to sell iPhone 5 at a higher price point and curb its manufacturing costs while ensuring smoother distribution and management of its supply chain.
Even if supply is sorted out, the problem of distribution will remain.
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Ranbaxy is one of three Indian companies selected by the Bill Clinton Foundation to supply a triple-molecule AIDS drug for distribution in Africa and the Caribbean.
U.S. officials negotiated use of the routes, known as the Northern Distribution Network, as an alternative inbound supply line for Afghanistan amid worsening relations with Pakistan and attacks on coalition supply convoys.
For example, military trucks -- now in large supply -- could provide the nucleus for an entrepreneurial distribution system.
Cytori is directly selling its products in Asia and Europe and also has distribution agreements with GE Healthcare and Green Hospital Supply.
So why would Apple, known for meticulous control of its supply chain, stay quiet when someone has invaded its distribution network in China?
Therefore, distribution must be delivered through a multi-layer supply chain that ends in thousands of mom-and-pop storefronts.
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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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Given the uncertainty in the demand environment, we decided to aggressively and proactively adjust our supply chain now to maintain lean inventories, especially in the distribution channel.
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Outsourcing of manufacturing, for instance, is feasible only if it can be separated from other supply chain activities: product development, branding, marketing, distribution, and after sales services.
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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As I discuss in The Business Strategy in a Semiglobal Economy, for instance, outsourcing of manufacturing is feasible only if it can be separated from other supply chain activities: product development, branding, marketing, distribution, and after sales services.
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