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... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Supply chain management Total quality management Manufacturing systems United States of America Deming (1982) recommended using a few suppliers and developing long‐term relationships with them based on loyalty and trust to reduce the source...

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... Manufacturing systems Strategic planning Singapore Singapore is one of the most industrially developed countries in the Asia‐Pacific region. The economic growth of Singapore was powered by continued global demand for electronic products. Although Singapore's GDP contracted by 2 percent in 2001...

... Publishing Limited 2004 Customers Manufacturing systems Supply chain management Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) no longer compete as sole autonomous entities but as supply chains owing to increased dependency on outsourcing. As the industrial giants trim down, much...