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ikea and its supply chain

By juliocobra | December 15, 2008

http://www.furnituretoday.com/article/160648-Ikea_official_criticizes_U_S_Lacey_Act.php
The goverment wants ikea to track where the wood they use for furniture comes from. Ikea says it is unrealistic and keeping track of everything would be impossible and expensive.

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apple to sell iphones in walmart

By juliocobra | December 8, 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=a4YIU21gLaSY&refer=us
apple will dominate the phone market with the help of walmart, this means more reach, more affordable phones targeted to young people.

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suply chain advantage

By juliocobra | December 8, 2008

http://www.insideretailing.com.au/articles-page.aspx?articleType=ArticleView&articleId=4077

companies like ZARA and IKEA have taken advantage of their supply chain to have their competitive advantage. ZARA is able to get products to the market while they are trendy even though they cost more to produce, they sell more. IKEA can save money on unassembled furniture when transporting it and this savings are pass [...]

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toyota helps distribution through better communication system

By juliocobra | November 19, 2008

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=73381
before the new system, toyota could only communicate electronically with dealers about orders on car parts “only”, but everything else was communicated by fax, phone, etc. The new system will allow a faster communication and better communication so car dealers can spend more time “SELLING” and not too much communicating. This can help improve distribution between [...]

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10/22/08

By juliocobra | October 22, 2008

steps to create a new blog , we added ourselves to the wymbs blogs. The blog guy did a post on pricing categories. And showed us how to check the post days later. we saw a video about nintendo we saw wii and ds consoles and how they sell indirectly thgrou distributors.
 
nitendo lets users [...]

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