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To: Dale Stempson who wrote (539)	2/19/2000 6:55:00 PM
From: Madharry	Respond to of 576

The reality is that in most cases today manufacturers accept inventory risk. ALmost everyone who sells to Walmart either accepts returns or markdowns- same with drugstore chains. I beleieve that IM should carry similar leverage. There are lots of competitive products out there and IM doesn't have to stock all of them.

To: Dale Stempson who wrote (539)	2/19/2000 10:15:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 576

Hi Dale: A simply summary of your post is IM needs to implement "a seamless distributed INFORMATION system that flows from the customer to the manufacturer back to the customer". It's simply delivering information (sales and orders) to each party updated in Real Time (using the Internet). I suppose this is the simplest B2B model with IM responsible for controlling the "distributed information inquiries" for all Suppliers and all customers.... and seeing that nothing gets screwed up. That sounds like quite a bit a value added. EKS