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4. Change in retailer supply chains. 3-D-printed products can potentially revolutionize retailers’ supply chains, with products created on-site only after ordered and paid for. This figures to have many indirect advantages, creating additional savings by reducing or eliminating shipping, warehousing, damage in transit, shoplifting, and goods not sold. In many ways, manufacturing is leading the 3-D printing revolution, discovering new efficiencies and even challenging the notion of factories as we know them going forward.
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Jon Nordmark is the CEO and co-founder at Iterate.ai, whose AI innovation ecosystem enables retailers and other businesses to build production-ready applications. Previously, Jon was the co-founder and CEO at eBags.com, which was acquired by Samsonite in 2017.