What do manufacturers pay attention to?

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Supply chain standardization and risk management. Read the study. Good talk topic! Here’s the study.  Link to pdf

Manufacturers aim for product standardisation | Official CIPS Magazine – Supply Management

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Capacity Planning in the auto industry

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Why are they doing this? What are the lead times before the jobs come online? Perhaps a talk topic! More research needed of course for that.

Ford To Add 5,750 New Jobs, Invest $4.8B In Plants | Manufacturing Business Technology

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Great article for a talk.

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Here is a good article to give a talk about. You can tell why this is a good operations decision– what are the advantages.

Postponement and importing cars « The Operations Room

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