Even worse, the new organization and processes required to serve global accounts can easily cause costs to soar especially if customers demand customization.
Designing prosthetics, for example, demands customization for every customer.
If you think it's only a matter of time before the company backslides into running out and buying point solutions on a credit card and demanding customizations that won't be supported long-term, then yes, I would say cloud – multi-tenant cloud – is a requirement, if only to enforce internal discipline.
If there was ever a product that demands customization, it's eyewear.
In the present era, cut-throat competition, fluctuating demands, customization of product, very high initial investment and ever increasing manpower cost, are severely affecting the profit margins of manufacturing industry.
Consumers are now requesting highly customized products and services, i.e. demanding mass customization from manufacturing companies.
While window treatments demand some customization, basics like bed linens and towels come in standard sizes and rarely need to be purchased at full price.
Unless it is a LIMS constructed specifically for the laboratory, an efficient use will frequently demand significant customization which is not always available or affordable.
To satisfy this new era of customers demanding outcomes (not ownership) customization (not generalization) and constant improvement (not planned obsolescence), businesses are compelled to change the way they sell products and services to keep customers consistently engaged in long-term relationships.
The site offers on-demand and customization capabilities, with the majority of its inventory being printed on demand at the time of ordering — that's useful, as it means Walmart won't have to house large stores of inventory for this home décor business, as most of it is made-to-order.
The current demand for customization, flexibility and responsiveness constitutes a challenge to achieve intelligent and adaptive manufacturing systems.
