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Recent Examples of job lotWhere some other towns operating similar schemes have put together a job lot of houses for €1, Castiglione di Sicilia is pricing the properties according to their condition.—Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 25 Apr. 2021
These solutions enabled companies to reduce lead times, decrease working capital requirements, and improve uptime by ensuring the availability of supply for critical parts.
2024: Strategic Necessity Achieved
2024 marked the inflection point at which AI became integral to supply chain resilience.
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Paul J. Noble,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025
Most large resorts have established hurricane protocols—including emergency generators, stocked supplies, and training to help guests shelter in place if needed.
For example, Walmart purchased Vizio, a maker of flat-screen televisions (a commodity product in every discount department store); and Home Depot recently purchased SRS Distribution, a building products distributor.
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Greg Petro,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
None of these companies own any mines or farms, but all three want to be indispensable in the next phase of Africa’s commodity supply chain story.
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Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega,
semafor.com,
14 July 2025
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