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1 Introduction
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... The powers of mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things." We live in a world where the most powerful corporation is no longer the one with the biggest factories or the most real estate but the one with the ability to rapidly turn ideas and thinking into new products, new services and new businesses (Wall Street Journal, January 27, 1999~.
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... . greater agility in responding to changes in technologies, markets, and trends greater efficiency due, in part, to less bureaucracy greater initiative and entrepreneurial behavior on the part of em ployees resulting in higher levels of creativity and energy and a strong desire for success access to specialized proprietary technologies, process capabilities, and expertise shorter time to market because operations are small and focused lower labor costs and less restrictive labor contracts spreading the costs of specialized capabilities over larger produc tion volumes by serving multiple customers lower cost customized services, including documentation, after sales support, spare parts, recycling, and disposal 13
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... Despite the strong overall trend toward increased supply chain integration, the extent of integration varies greatly from industry to industry. Defense industries, for example, are not allowed to make decisions based on the overall good of supply chains until changes have been made in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
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... (A copy of the questionnaire and a summary of the data are included in Appendix A.) Although each SME has its own definition of success, the committee defined the phrase successful supply chain participation in a manner similar to the traditional definition of business success (i.e., participation in which benefits to the corporation substantially exceed the costs)
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