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Supply Chain Management
By Stephen Pritchard
Published: May 21 2007 12:41 | Last updated: May 21 2007 12:41
As recently as 20 years ago, the most reliable way to ensure on-time delivery of materials was to buy from companies that were close at hand.
Manufacturing businesses moving to “just-in-time” production methods ensured reliable deliveries of parts by setting up on-site supplier parks, such as those at Nissan’s UK plant in Sunderland, or Volkswagen’s commercial vehicle operations at Hanover, where supplies are fed directly into production lines by way of a 360m-long “logistics bridge”.
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