the years of the first publication of the Mac products , iPod, iPhone and iPad. For weeks before the announcement, the factory worked overtime to hundreds of thousands of construction equipment. To monitor performance and ensure confidential prior to the announcement, Apple put the electronic screen in a box of parts that allows observers to monitor everything in Cupertino at the factory in China , an attempt to prevent leakage.

As a consultant working for Apple, at least the company was shipping products in the tomato containers to avoid detection. When iPad 2 was announced, the finished device is packaged in the sealed container and the Apple staff control each delivery point - docks, airports, warehouses and loading docks and vehicle distribution centers - to make sure that eachproduct is preserved.

The Apple retail store offers the advantage last operation for the company. Once the product is sold, the company can track the shop and demand and adjust hourly forecast daily production. If a certain component of all, the team is deployed and are approved to spend millions of dollars for more equipment to avoid production delays.

Apple's massive profit - Gross profit was 40% last quarter, compared with 10-20% of most other hardware companies - largely due to the focus on activities. This will certainly remain a priority under Cook. The new CEO is known to have given his colleagues a Competing Against Time (roughly translated Compete with time), a book on the use of the supply chain as a strategic weapon in the business. According to