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Integrating the Manufacturing Supply Chain: The Path Toward Innovation and Success

Overview Like every industry today, the world of manufacturing is dealing with increasing business pressures. Secure and seamless order fulfillment processes will not be sufficient win and retain customer loyalty. Success for today’s manufacturers will depend on their ability to provide superior value to customers in not only products and processes, but services and solutions as well. This paper describes that to deliver this benefit critical to keeping customers; companies will have to deploy flexible and collaborative systems that decrease the time to market for innovative products with ever shorter life cycles, while reducing costs and opening up new revenue streams.

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Publisher	Hewlett Packard	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	September 2003	Downloads	49
Format	White Papers
Topics	Supply Chain Management, Strategic Planning, Manufacturing

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