Is the chain tight?

锚链紧吗？

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Now, the economic situation at home and abroad is grim, and the shrinking of the assets of enterprises and the tight funding chain add fuel to the already fierce wave of global acquisition.

当前国际国内经济形势严峻，企业资产价格大幅缩水、企业资金链紧绷，使本来已日益高涨的全球性并购浪潮更加凶猛。

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The production of almost every complex manufactured product now involves input from a dozen countries in a tight global supply chain.

为了生产一种复杂的产品，可能需要处于全球十几个国家的供应商所形成的一个供应链紧密合作。

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As he recognized that the success of supply chain was increasingly dependent on system integration, data integrity, and other key aspects typically run by the IT department, he determined that tight integration between IT and supply chain was a must.

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But, as anyone on the "field-end" rather than the "fork-end" of the food supply chain will tell you, these days margins are tight and competition fierce.

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Still, in this tight job market, Paul and Nannette Dillon felt the job in supply-chain management was too good to pass up, so Paul moved to Akron in November.

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