Customers currently link to Cisco's website to configure, price, and order its networking equipment. Cisco then sends orders back out across the Internet to producers and assemblers including Celestica, Flextronics, Jabil, and Solectron. Products are built and tested to Cisco's standards, sometimes with procedures run remotely by Cisco. Most items are then drop$-$shipped to buyers, untouched by Cisco's employees. All companies come together to create and deliver the product to the ultimate consumer. This is a description of Cisco's

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product$-$specific delivery system.

electronic data interchange.

strategic information alliance.

supply chain.

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