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SupplyChainBrain Power Lunch: Minimizing Risk Created By Suppliers' Behavior

Samad Muhammad, Atlantic Software Technologies & Bob Heaney, Aberdeen Group

October 4, 2011

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In this Power Lunch session hosted by SupplyChainBrain, Samad Muhammad, vice president aerospace & manufacturing at Atlantic Software Technologies is joined by Bob Heaney, senior research analyst with Aberdeen Group, in a discussion of the risks that must be managed when dealing with multiple suppliers around the world. [Run Time (Min.): 20:29]

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