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Principles of Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Principles of Supply Chain Management, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Richard E. Crandall, William R. Crandall, Charlie C. Chen
December 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
717 pages
29h 18m
English
CRC Press
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376 Principles of Supply Chain Management
From the 1880s until World War I, a number of industries blossomed and saw the growth of
large companies—U.S. Rubber in rubber products, General Electric in manufactured goods,
and DuPont in explosives and chemicals. Companies found there were two areas necessary
in their efforts to expand their sales: (1) a production system that connected the ow of mate-
rials and the processes into a continuous stream and (2) an in-house marketing organiza-
tion that could sell the product into increasingly larger and more remote markets (Chandler
1977). Ford’s focus on the assembly line for automobiles represented the most progressive
movement toward product ow. Whereas companies had used jobbers and agents to sell ...
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ISBN: 9781482212020