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According to a new Forrester Research Inc. report, U.S. firms will spend a total of $35 billion over the next five years to improve business processes that monitor, manage and optimize their extended supply chains. In the report SCM Processes Replace Applications: 2003 to 2003, Forrester expects firms to increasingly extend their supply chain processes across departmental and partner boundaries. For firms, this means the end of investments in narrowly focused functional supply chain management applications and concentration on supply chain processes that support firms' migration t

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