SupplyChain Magazine January 2019 | Page 79

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“ 25 years ago , the engineering team would make designs and we would have to try to source it . Now , everyone on all teams works very closely together to ensure that whatever products we ’ re designing is manufacturable and that there is a good supply chain pool .”
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In order to diversify its business model , solely buying steel directly from the mill , CI decided to partner with leading steel supplier , O ’ Neal Steel , in a bid to reduce its lead times . However , with close to 50 % of steel produced being
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