Meanwhile, other dealers are creating the entire deal online and even delivering the car, points out Peter Sealey, co-director of the Center for Marketing and Technology at the University of California at Berkeley. The same competition exists in the steel industry. Bethlehem Steel Corp. requires three to four man-hours of labor to produce a ton of steel. IT gets involved by offering those capabilities to its users. Corporate financing has changed to respond to those new demands.
Money also has to be available for flexible, market-based planning.
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