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Chain-gang challenges Pat Sweet finds that emerging solutions to supply chain problems will demand flexibility from suppliers and users alike, presenting consultants with opportunities at all levels. |
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The past year has seen supply chain issues move out of the back room and into the limelight. A decade ago, distribution and logistics concerns used to be the preserve of a handful of specialists, attracting little attention outside their own domain. That was before new technology began to have a major impact on manufacturing processes and, even more significantly, before the emergence of e-business and online buying and selling. Today the whole supply chain concept embraces a much wider set of applications than simply delivering the goods. This, in turn, has given the topic a far greater prominence, as well as a clutch of new descriptions. Without a doubt, the internet has been the defining technology of the past few years, and nowhere has its influence been more acutely felt than in the supply chain arena. Here, the technology has not only created a completely different set of business circumstances, but also provided the means by which these new requirements can be satisfied. |
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Collaborative Supply Chain