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From the Quarter 02 2008 issue
When Gerardus Mercator published the first atlas of the world in the 16th century, many of his maps included white areas with the words Terra Incognita—Latin for "unknown territory." Most companies that map out their end-to-end supply chains today could use similar terminology, because they do not know all of the players in their supply chains....
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