In years past, outsourcers were given the specs and told to build to order.
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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?
Auto factories in Europe and Japan have long been set up to build cars to order, because European and Japanese customers order cars instead of picking them off the lot at auto malls.
By getting workers to build each computer to order, Dell also keeps fewer stocks.
PPS21 relaxed the rules to allow some farmers to build homes in order to sustain their livelihoods.
On top of providing a service to individual students, Seelio is also partnering with event brands to build galleries in order to power their exposure.
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The decline in capex guidance is primarily due to the company's decision to defer a portion of its LTE build in order to better align capex with the expected receipt of LTE revenues.
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.
Anyone who wants a piece of the action will have to build factories there in order to take full advantage of that growth.
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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.
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.
"This whole thing points to an automotive renaissance, " gushes Painter, who has tentatively named his company Build-To-Order .
They will go to any lengths and twist themselves into whatever contortions they need to in order to build the beachhead.
But she is also portrayed as someone who needs reassurance and talks to herself in order to build up her own self-esteem.
Credit its relentless price-slashing and its build-to-order business model, which keeps inventories low.
Mr Davie said the company might have to build a new plant in order to solve the problem.
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.
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.
We have established new objectives -- not only the bilateral agenda, but also at the regional and global level on the basis of which we would like to build an order of peace and cooperation.
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As a result of such workforce migration, Mendes Junior took huge costs to build an entire city in order to accommodate its workers abroad, which included a hospital, schools, supermarkets, leisure and fitness clubs and some 725 houses.
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.
An estimated 20, 000 people will have to be relocated in order to build Belo Monte in the desolate northern Amazon state of Para.
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We've got to appeal to Independents and Republicans in order to build a working majority to move an agenda forward.
We need to listen to each other because we need to work together in peace in order to build a better world.
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Its premier, Hernus Kriel, once served as police minister but came to shun the national arena in order to build support among the province's minority white population and the Coloured (mixed-race) voters who make up more than half its electorate.
Not many people subscribe to the notion that it is better for countries to borrow, except when they are talking about the U.S. It is time for a paradigm shift: Asian countries should stop being thrifty and learn to indulge in huge borrowing in order to build megaprojects, as did Malaysia's former prime minister, Dr. Mahathir.
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