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FedEx Founder Fred Smith Dies at 80

Supply Chain Digest

Operations began in 1973 with 14 aircraft, and a package hub in Memphis. Without those constraints, FedEx could afford to buy larger planes and by 1983 had revenue over $1 billion. Mike Ledyard Vested Program Faculty, Vested Way / University ofTennessee Posted on: Aug, 04 2017 Excellent article.

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Enabling Innovation Groups To Sell More Effectively to Operations Leaders

ThroughPut

Whether it is access to data, maneuvering around competing innovation objectives, tracking down actual factory-floor operators, or involving oft-neglected procurement groups, there are internal bottlenecks everywhere. Whether you like it or not, people buy from Apple, not from you, Apple Store Genius.

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