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Chapter 2: Cake or Ice Cream? Tracking Consumer Choices

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Chapter 3: Digging into Your Supply Chain

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Chapter 4: Optimizing Your Supply Chain

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 Chapter 5: Connecting Supply Chain Processes
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Chapter 6:Planning the Supply Chain

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Chapter 8: Making your Products or Services

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