China is able to stay one-step ahead of the game, using risk-based management processes their suppliers.
These were good years, during which Dell became the world's largest and most profitable computer-maker, with a supply chain that was easily the most efficient in the industry, if not the world, and a direct-sales model that seemed to keep Dell one step ahead of rival companies selling computers through old-fashioned stores.
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Rent-seeking and sheer profitability provide strong incentives for powerful pan-Asian logging networks to stay one step ahead of environmentalists trying to regulate the flow of logs from countries such as Indonesia.
At times, he can seem to be one step ahead of his team-mates.
This time the venerable British brand is staying one step ahead of its already digitally-advanced self by working a partnership with Twitter to tweet backstage photos of each and every look in the collection before livestreaming its London Fashion Week runway show.
It can be seen in numerous shots as the ever-less-genial Uncle Charlie shuttles around town one step ahead of suspicions that he is a serial killer.
General Motors is doing its part to keep its factories humming and stay one step ahead of the competition in the hotly contested full-size pickup segment by offering hefty cash incentives on its broad line of Silverado and Sierra models.
Science, too, is one step ahead of Professor Meadow and is working on the opposite theory - that in fact the more cot deaths a mother suffers, the more likely it is that she and her babies suffer a genetic condition.
In the never-ending race to protect our country, we have to stay one step ahead of a nimble adversary.
Ms Reddrop said Tabak had also used the internet to conduct "in-depth research" on the case in a bid to "keep one step ahead of the investigation".
This is somewhat ironic, because a data scientist is expected to do his or her job in a data-driven way, but that person also needs to be a visionary and think one step ahead of the market in order to develop an innovative product.
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