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Flattener # 7. Supply-Chaining:

In this flattener the Friedman compares the modern retail supply chain to a river, and points to Wal-Mart as the best example of a company using technology to streamline item sales, distribution, and shipping. Management of activities that produce material material, and services, transforming them into intermediate goods and final product, and delivering the products through a distribution system.