INTRODUCTION What if you knew that every order you shipped would be returned? What if you knew that for every item actually used by your customer, you would have to ship thirty, forty, fifty…a hundred or more “spares?” What if you knew that all of these leftover items would be returned to you on a daily basis, and usually, not nearly in as organized a box as the neatly packed one which left your distribution center days before? What if you faced packing, shipping, and receiving thousands of such orders on a weekly basis

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Automating The Orthopedic Supply Chain