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Filling orders from an inventory of 69,000 parts sounds anything but simple. Yet the folks at Future Electronics' new DC insist their workers could do it with their eyes closed.
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You no longer have to be a Wal-Mart to afford supply chain execution (SCE) systems. Even small companies can trade in their old paper-based systems for these powerful hypernetworked tools.
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