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The fntnre of a snpply chain lies in the definition of these out-side-in processes. It will drive new business models. Just as Amazon, Apple, Dell, and Walmart used supply chain management to define new bnsiness models of the past, new leaders will seize these shifts to power innovation. 

The supply chain failures grab headlines. Success in the supply chain happens slowly over many years, but when a leader stumbles the impact on the balance sheet is pervasive. Much of the public understanding of supply chain management comes from reading about the failures. When companies with names like Apple, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Coca-Cola, CoirAgra, Hershey, Johnson Johnson, Ericsson, Mattel, Nestle, Nike, PepsiCo, Sainsbury s, and Western Digital make headline news due to supply chain failure, it is hard to not pay attention. Each time these premier brands stumbled, failed, and learned new lessons, the bar on supply chain excellence was raised. 

In phone interviews, as the leaders think through their answer, they will often cite Apple s dominance in high-tech innovation, DelTs leadership in defining new business models, and Toyota s definition of lean processes. However, when the pioneers are pressed to name a single leader, one name is usually mentioned followed by silence P G is seen as the year-over-year leader by the pioneers. Apple is the second most often mentioned and Dell is third. The aggregate response of the supply chain pioneers is shown in Figure 1.9. 

Demand networks. These outside-in networks improve the timeliness and depth of demand insights from the channel. They shorten the time to sense channel demand and improve demand shaping to drive a more profitable response. These are the most mature in consumer-facing value networks. Leaders include Apple, Dell, General Mills, Kraft, PepsiCo, Procter Gamble, and Samsung. 

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In the early 1970s, the Xerox Corporation s Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) developed what could probably be called the world s first personal computer as a research project. Chuck Thacker was the project leader. It was never a commercial product although some two thousand were built. Called the Xerox Alto, it featured a Graphical User Interface (GUI) on a television screen and a mouse with point-click functionality. It used a Texas Instruments 74181 chip and had 128 KB of main memory, with 2.5 MB hard disk. In short, it had many of the features we recognize in today s personal computers. It was undoubtedly highly influential in the later developments of Apple and IBM. 

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