A New Form of Customer Relations:
• Customization of product or service for individual customer.


This factor involves major changes to all functions associated with the Product Package Subsystem and the Product Infrastructure Subsystem:
  • Product Package Design must provide the design for a customizable product.

  • Product Package Development must implement that customizable design.

  • Product Package Order must be able to process customized sales orders.

  • Product Package Support must handle a new kind of customer service where each customer's product may have a unique set of features.

  • Product Infrastructure Design must design an infrastructure that can produce customized products.

  • Product Infrastructure Development must implement the customization capability into the production facilities.

  • Product Infrastructure Order must be able to produce the customized product.

  • Product Infrastructure Support must be able to support spares and repairs for customized products.
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