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Article #3807Re: NeXt: fire your head of product distribution
From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:53
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 15:53
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In article <Bvo482.JvE@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B) writes:
>In article <1992Oct5.163926.2680@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
>haller@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Kirk Haller) writes:
>> NeXt: If you don't have something in stock, let your customers know,
>otherwise
>> get the orders right!!!!!!
>
>NeXT still doesn't keep a stock, do they? That was one of
>the things they impressed me with when I was out there
>years ago. Machines were built basically on demand. Is
>that still the case? Are they having trouble keeping up?
>Is there a shortage of some of the components?
I think they still sort of make them on demand, but they queue up the
orders and say "O.K. let's make NeXTstation Turbo Colors today..." and
do it that way. Apparently it doesn't take long to switch over the
line, but it's more efficient to do the machines in runs...
andrew
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!cubetech.com!imladris!andrew From: andrew@cubetech.com (Andrew Loewenstern) Subject: Re: NeXt: fire your head of product distribution Message-ID: <1992Oct6.155335.18820@cubetech.com> Organization: Cube Technologies, Inc. References: <1992Oct5.163926.2680@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> <Bvo482.JvE@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 15:53:35 GMT Lines: 25