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| Author: | Vliet, A. van de |
| Title: | When the haggling has to stop |
| Journal: | Management Today
1996 : JUN, 6, p. 56-61 |
| Index terms: | MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATIONS CAR INDUSTRY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Supply chain management , long a hot topic in the car industry, is winning converts in other sectors as companies realise there are limits to what can be achieved through internal reorganization and re-engineering. In 1991, Harry Douthwaite was appointed purchasing director at Dewhirst, one of the leading manufacturers, was suffering from escalating materials costs, towering stock levels, problems with waste and obsolescence and "less than wonderful" relationship with its seven hundred of actual suppliers. |
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