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Finding the perfect fit
Over the past decade, product-selling companies have seen complexity increase in every link of their supply chains, from customers to retail channels to manufacturing processes, and all the way back to raw-material supply. Driving this added complexity is consumers' demand for products that match their needs, tastes, and lifestyles. At the extreme, this market fragmentation has fueled the growth of mass customization, with companies like Timbuk2 or Nike manufacturing bags and shoes to individual consumers' requirements. But mass-market producers have been affected, too. Nokia, the electronics giant, now produces as many as 170 handset variants and 250 sales packages based on a single product platform....
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