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Mass Customization
Mass customization allows firms to produce products their
customers want.
Company Overview
Subsidiary of Japanese industrial giant Matsushita
NBIC began to manufacture and sell bicycles in 1952
In 1987, introduced Panasonic Order System(POS) to
manufacture custom-made bicycles
Manufacturing Process
Step 1: Frame and Front fork
production
Customer service
Appropriate pricing
On time delivery
Extensive communication
Dealership selection
Observations
Firms that pursue both mass-customization and
mass-production approaches simultaneously will tend
to outperform
Recommendations to MD
Do not turn Mass- production factory into
Custom-shop
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