Use supply chain practices to drive down parts cost and inventory, making it possible to compete on price and collect your funds before paying vendors.
Cycling did not appeal to the masses until the introduction of the pneumatic safety bicycle with a chain and sprocket drive (the prototype of the modern design).
Here we look at a couple of trends that drive the restaurant chain and how their performances will affect the profitability of the company.
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BB-mounted systems, for instance, drive from the chain rings, meaning potential loss through the rings and chain, while also increasing wear on these components.
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She writes that checks with the drive industry supply chain suggest the total addressable market is tracking to 163 million units for the June quarter and 180 million for the September quarter, above her previous estimates of 160 million and 170 million, respectively.
Macy's prices some of its specials at or below cost to drive traffic, said Martine Reardon, the chain's executive vice president of marketing and advertising.
There's no chain on the bike -- instead it relies on a shaft drive to move the wheels.
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Intel said that while sales of personal computers are expected to be up sequentially in the fourth quarter, the worldwide PC supply chain is reducing inventories and microprocessor purchases as a result of hard disk drive supply shortages, which Intel expects to continue into the first quarter.
He says discussions with the PC supply chain suggest Q1 production will he below seasonal patterns, due to hard-drive shortages and generally soft demand.
The sweeping chain of events started in April 2006, when Dwek pulled up to a drive-through window at his longtime bank, a PNC Bank branch in Eatontown, N.
That chain became CBS and it was extremely effective in selling things to smoke, drink, drive or make you smell nice.
The restaurant chain has been reluctant to raise menu prices for a while now fearing that it might drive away customers to its rivals.
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It's a legal product with harmful effects so governments should rather focus their attention on educating people rather than going and trying and demonize the industry, drive extreme regulation, drive extreme taxation and now even right down to the most vulnerable in value chain, which are the farmers, the soft underbelly of the sector.
Jere Thompson Jr. had the experience of watching his father and uncle drive the family's 7-Eleven empire -- a worldwide convenience-store chain that his grandfather started with a single Dallas icehouse in 1927 -- into Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1990.
The trend has hurt all of the players in the PC food chain, including not just Dell and HP, but also Microsoft, Intel, the disk-drive companies and others.
He took his eye off Wright's drive to check for the section of the wall in front of the Mets bullpen that is a chain link fence, and it went for a first-inning triple.
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