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Management
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manage its supply chain is a major source products. Lockamy, Beal, and Smith de
of competitive advantage. This realization scribe 3M's supply-chain-excellence initia
is the single most important reason for the tive. Supply-chain directors have been re
recent emphasis on supply-chain manage sponsible for improvements in their
groups. About half the divisions have as
ment in industry and academia.
This special issue on supply-chain man
and thinking because of the nature of their alty, (3) doubling the speed of current
0092-2102/00/3004/0001 /$05.00
1526-551X electronic ISSN
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INTRODUCTION
vehicles to about 750 dealers in the US af
ter their assembly in Mexico and Ger
chain.
ductor companies to use a virtual business members into their operations while si
multaneously ensuring integration with
model by outsourcing its logistics, sales,
distribution, and almost all manufactur
their upstream members.
Yasemin Aksoy
Tulane University
New Orleans, Louisiana 70118
yasemin.aksoy@tulane.edu
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