The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
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And while that is good for the consumer, it tends to result in margin pressure across the supply chain as the vendor needs to trim costs in order to maintain their margins.
As a result, the extended supply chain now has many additional points of potential failure, suggesting that new approaches to risk management can be beneficial.
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As a result, the value of supply chain visibility has increased significantly.
High demand: The concerns are not the result of weak demand but merely related to supply-chain issues which Qualcomm hopes to overcome by the end of the September quarter.
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The result is a further two to three years strength throughout the commercial aviation supply chain.
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As a result, when I rose up the IT chain, I did so not just thinking about my role as an order taker or as just an internal service provider, but also as a business leader and change agent.
He added that the school is now being forced to join an academy chain and the new head may lose his job with the result that other would-be school leaders may decide in future to "only opt for 'good' schools".
"We have already seen that the oceans are becoming more acidic as a result of the carbon dioxide uptake, with potential repercussions for the underwater food chain and coral reefs, " he said.
"We've already seen that the oceans are becoming more acidic as a result of the carbon dioxide uptake, with potential repercussions for the underwater food chain and coral reefs, " Jarraud said in a statement.
They do so by starting chain-reactions that result in the addition and subtraction of molecular sub-units known as phosphate groups from particular proteins in the nerve cell being stimulated.
Amid the flurry of announcements around these two events, there was one from Qualcomm (QCOM) that caught my eye largely because it could result in a new wave of consolidation in the supply chain.
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However, he stressed there are "many steps in the chain" between confirming the collaboration's experimental result, and resolving the theory to accommodate it.
We also believe that some of the revenue upside that we saw in the March 2011 quarter was the result of customers being cautious and accelerating purchasing activities to minimize supply chain disruptions.
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Intel said that while sales of personal computers are expected to be up sequentially in the fourth quarter, the worldwide PC supply chain is reducing inventories and microprocessor purchases as a result of hard disk drive supply shortages, which Intel expects to continue into the first quarter.
As a result, the practice of safety stock and holding inventory against commodity price fluctuation and supply chain disruption will provide relief from the fragility of the supply chain.
As a result, smallholders present a compelling opportunity for buyers, lenders, and other actors in the agricultural value chain.
As a result, the industry growth clusters (aviation, specialized business services, life sciences, innovative manufacturing, and supply chain and logistics) have been gaining traction in our metro area.
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