"Adopt thy partners. The real-time enterprise must span the physical boundaries of an enterprise and should extend as a virtual enterprise through the entire end-to-end chain. For example, Colgate-Palmolive trimmed its inventory 13% and saved [US] $150 million by attaching its order planning systems to thousands of Wal-Mart and Kmart cash registers.
Executive Update
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