This white paper examines the growing trend to optimize extended supply chains in the electronics industry, noting that the handful of companies that have done so successfully to date have excelled at boosting their sales and profitability. Like many basic ideas in business, integrating systems to optimize a value chain is a powerful concept. Electronics companies that make the effort to optimize their extended value chains both internally and externally, including Dell, Intel, Enterasys, Flextronics and Phoenix Technologies also are proving adept at boosting their own sales and profitability and at satisfying customers.
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