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Enterprise applications, advanced planning systems, and enterprise application integration technologies provide a well-established way of providing information technology support for supply chain management. Despite enormous gains in flexibility of these technologies their general characteristics remain corresponding to the lean and flexible supply chain strategies. These technologies are based on standardization and require relatively large up-front investments and setup time, thus limiting supply chain reconfiguration opportunities.

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    http://insights-on-business.com/electronics/3d-printing-transforming-the-supply-chain-part-1/

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    http://www.engineering.com/3DPrinting/3DPrintingArticles/ArticleID/5800/3D-Printed-Antennas-Could-Reduce-Size-Cost-of-Mobile-Devices.aspx

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    http://www.wired.com/2013/01/nokia-3d-print-case/

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Chandra, C., Grabis, J. (2016). Mobile and Cloud Based Technologies. In: Supply Chain Configuration. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3557-4_12

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