Credit its relentless price-slashing and its build-to-order business model, which keeps inventories low.
"This whole thing points to an automotive renaissance, " gushes Painter, who has tentatively named his company Build-To-Order .
Dell has aggressively moved its renowned direct-sales, build-to-order business model to the Internet.
Dell's build-to-order business model means it is among the first to be exposed to price changes in the supply chain.
Such limited customisation encourages a build-to-order model, without the need for a supply chain drowned by a huge number of parts.
It's also a channel where Dell's build-to-order advantage does it little good.
The Internet has nudged buyers' expectations in the build-to-order direction.
Meanwhile, Hewlett-Packard announced last week that it added Omnibook notebooks to its TopValue Reseller program which offers discounts to users ordering a standard configuration rather than a customized build-to-order system.
In the past decade, HP has consistently taken measures to ensure profitability in the PC market through increased operational efficiency, expanded build-to-customer-order capabilities and supply chain improvements.
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Moonlighting was a short-term endeavor for Daniel Zawacki, who was a 24-year-old Honeywell (nyse: HON - news - people ) salesman in Peoria, Ill. when he decided to build a mail-order lobster business.
The specimen is then rotated on a mechanised platform as it is exposed to the X-ray beam, in order to build up a three-dimensional picture.
The latter, after all, enjoys two distinct advantages over the former: (1) Orbiting sensors and interceptors are cheaper to build and maintain -- on the order of a 3-to-1 cost advantage -- and (2) they offer continuous, global defense coverage.
Moonlighting was a short-term endeavor for Daniel Zawacki, who was a 24-year-old Honeywell salesman in Peoria, Ill. when he decided to build a mail-order lobster business.
Some progressives believed in fostering this self-discovery by lavishing children with praise in order to build their self-esteem.
The other half worked on the back end, crunching computer code to build systems for order-processing, distribution and inventory flow and to integrate a new Web site tracking system with the existing ones.
Patrick Mumford, director of the city's Department of Neighborhood and Business Services, said the city hopes to attract developers to build sound stages in order to bring film-production companies as anchor tenants to the property.
In 2004, Howard Dean as a candidate sought to build on an employer-based health care system in order to cover millions of Americans that currently lack coverage.
And now you're seeing all across Ohio some of the -- this state has received more funds than just about anybody in order to build on that clean energy economy -- new cutting-edge wind turbines and batteries that are going to be going into energy-efficient cars.
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Since she is already famous, she does not have to declare early in order to build up the name-recognition that other contenders still lack.
But she is also portrayed as someone who needs reassurance and talks to herself in order to build up her own self-esteem.
It will now be subject to a 12-month probation period in order to build up a track record of compliance with the rules of sponsoring students to study in the UK. During this time the number of students it can recruit from abroad will also be limited.
"I also remind the Trust how vital it is to publish all relevant evidence, as soon as possible, in order to re-build public trust and confidence in the BBC, " she said.
Put simply, utilities are being asked to build smart grids in order to reduce demand for energy while long-standing industry rules still reward them for supplying more.
"I just played my natural game and was able to build partnerships with late-order batsmen, " he said.
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They are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build manufacturing plants--giant bio-vats that hold millions of gallons of cultured mammal cells--in order to develop new protein drugs to treat cancer, rheumatoid arthritis and Alzheimer's.
He is creating satellite companies--a fashion design house, a cable TV network for high schools, restaurants and bars, a mail-order catalog for youth-focused merchandise--which he hopes to build and then sell.
Our company has, in good faith, invested significant sums, taken risks and endured a period of disappointing results in order to re-build the Martha Stewart brand and grow it in important product categories.
In order to build sustainable, well-balanced societies, culture and development have to be linked.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that government and manufacturers would split the pot equally in order to build a domestic industry of low-carbon transport.
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The dilemma faced by Toyota and all automakers is: How can you be as efficient as Ford yet give customers exactly the vehicle they want--how can you, that is, build to order and still build cheaply?
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