(Ellen and Jay 393) The technologies that make Quick Response possible are electronic data exchange and bar coding. ... The results of clerical and data entry errors can be a significant source of cost and related problems. The typical error rate for human data entry is 1 per 300 characters. ... They have installed more very large data warehouses than all of our competitors combined, including 120 that are for six of the world's top ten retailers, seven of the world's top nine telecommunications companies, six of the world's top seven airlines, and fifteen of the world'...

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