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Overview Ever since the industrial revolution supplanted individual craftsmen as the means to get products to consumers, there has been a continual quest to drive time and cost out of the production and delivery process, what one now calls the supply chain. This quest is often expressed colloquially as "Better, cheaper, faster." The path to "Better, cheaper, faster" has always been paved with improvements in technology, process, or a combination of the two. Steam-powered machines launched the industrial revolution; Henry Ford's assembly line process enabled mass production; and the computer made information and workflow an integral part of supply chain improvement initiatives, to name just a few examples.

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Publisher	RedPrairie	File Format	PDF
Date Published	September 2006
Format	White Papers
Topics	Sales Force Automation, Supply Chain Management

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