Its ingenious production control is a hat tip to Tim Cook who built the supply chain over a decade.
"I'm very aware as a creative person that those who control the means of production control the creative vision, " he says.
"Henry's premise was: The more you control production, the more you can control what you sell the car for, too, " said Ford Motor's historian, Robert Kreipke.
Khodaidad says the Afghan government is largely powerless to control the production of opium while Taliban extremists, who now control and draw funding from drug crops, control cultivation areas despite major international military efforts to push them back.
The deals were structured so that Cnooc didn't get an ownership stake in Chesapeake itself and didn't control production.
But, he said, the company may have shortened that production schedule to control information leaks that could come from suppliers.
Specifically, one vendor may control production by influence over multiple manufacturers at many different sites, thus leading to such shortfalls in production.
The company was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 500 miles from the Andes to Colombia's coast.
It was forced to sell off 90% of the production, ceding control to BP Amoco, in order to finance a multibillion-dollar project that included pipelines to carry the oil 800 kilometers from the Andes to the coast of Colombia.
In short, all the producers of Parmigiano-Reggiano have an iconic vision of what the perfect cheese should look like, feel like, smell like and taste like, and all of its production and quality control is geared to produce exactly this result.
But in return, this makes it easier for the company to control production quality, as well as to make it harder for Asian copycats -- Gustafsson said you just don't know if a contractor sets up a second line to produce clones.
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It will keep at home development and production of critical computer control systems, and much else.
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He knew that the same gene that caused fragile X also helped control protein production.
Because kits are now distributed to fewer centres and every ball is coded (so that inspectors can trace strays), manufacturers have better control of production.
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In the first instance, the ease with which lethal chemical agents can be produced means that any effort to control such production is truly a universal problem.
By choking off the trafficking routes, they hope to bankrupt and tame Wei's United Wa State Army, which runs a semi-autonomous enclave on the Myanmar side, where they allegedly control yaba production and trade.
In fact, consolidation is happening because the government believes it can ensure better pollution oversight, labor conditions and quality control of production processes in large state-run enterprises than in the multitude of tiny private businesses that cut corners in pollution controls and make mistakes like getting melamine into the dairy supply chain.
He likens it to the way a Hollywood film might be very different from the original script - and that Shakespeare was unusual in getting control of the production process.
As Lehman analyst Tony Butler pointed out on the call, cutting manufacturing costs may require buying more "intermediates" from outside the company, where Merck will have less control over their production.
Also on 15 November, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took control of the production and distribution of -- and the hard currency revenues associated with -- oil, diamonds, gold and other precious metals on Russian territory .
The government argues the licensing procedure will assist quality control and boost domestic production.
Even then, you can control when you allow production IPv6 traffic to your web server.
The fall in energy prices offset higher production as the company struggled to control costs.
Morales gave companies from Brazil, Spain, France and the U.S., six months to negotiate new contracts, providing Bolivia with far greater control over natural gas production.
Its control over both the production and the enforcement of legislation gives the commission enormous power, in a Union in which half of all new laws now emanate from Brussels.
These same three control two thirds of production capacity.
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The sentiment to mine and produce rare earths outside of China does not fall squarely on the shoulders of these two companies but it is still believed that bigger companies will gain more control of mines and production compared to smaller mining companies.
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Its control of each stage of production helps Smithfield to trace back any problems with pathogens and address them.
Big Pharma could integrate low production cost in China with the quality control of Western medicine and tap a huge domestic demand, Li foresees.
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