New technologies for supply chain management and flexible manufacturing imply that businesses can perceive imbalances in inventories at a very early state—virtually in real time—and can cut production promptly in response to the developing signs of unintended inventory building.

Alan Greenspan Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Testimony to the U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs February 13, 2001

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