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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Hello colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>A research collaborator of mine is looking for software to create an illustration of material flow within a supply chain. There are inflows and outflows, suppliers and customers. The software that we have found tends to be focused on diagramming social networks, but has not been applied in the operations area that we can find. This not being my area of expertise, I felt certain that this community would surely have some ideas or point us in the right direction. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>As customary, I will summarize and post all answers to the list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'>Elizabeth<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>Elizabeth White Baker, Ph.D.</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br>Visiting Assistant Professor<br>Schools of Business<br>Wake Forest University<br>P.O. Box 7659<br>Winston-Salem, NC 27109</span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><a href="mailto:bakerew@wfu.edu"><span style='color:black'>bakerew@wfu.edu</span></a></span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'>p 336.758.4144<br>f 336.758.6198</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black'><br><img border=0 width=144 height=44 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.gif@01CCA3A9.DE4DC160" alt="Description: http://business.wfu.edu/apps/images/wfusignature.gif"></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>