When Iwate Toshiba, a semiconductor fabricator in north- ern Japan, started searching for a supply chain solution to resolve its myriad of production problems, it found exact- ly what it needed in AdexaÕs iCollaboration suite. The Challenge Based in Kitakami City, this high-tech giant faced the Herculean task each month of streamlining produc- tion of 25 million components to build 3,000 product lines, including microcomputer chips and CCD opti-

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