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"We believe we're shipping into our customers' production, that they're not actually building inventory," Mr. March said.
The documents show that they shared information about customers, production capacities, sales volumes and even plant maintenance.
Keyence Corporation, a Japanese maker of automation devices for factories, requires its salespeople to spend hours watching its customers' production lines.
Suppliers benefit greatly when they can see their customers' production schedules and sales data, because they can then plan ahead for the volume and timing of orders.
But given the cost of hauling cars to customers, production in the EU will not vanish.For all the talk about délocalisation, perhaps the Logan is distinctively European in a way that harks back to the first years of post-war motoring.
"We don't operate trains," says Power, "we're an extension of our customers' production line".
It's already marketing a polycarbonate for optical media like CD-ROMs that can shorten customers' production cycles.
As products tend to vary, have short due dates, and life cycles, are highly precise and must be responsiveness to customers, production system planning is complex and the relationship between outsourcing capability and in-house capacity is crucial to mold-manufacturing.
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