... 120 hours a week. It has relatively long lead times and short production runs and a reasonable small finished goods inventory of 38 days. These features are typical for companies, which apply flexible and customized production. A disadvantage of the short production runs is that it takes more changeover time and thus leads to higher costs. The WIP inventory is rather high but it buys them the ability to quickly respond to unexpected orders. Quality As mentioned before ACC wants to provide their customers with what they want. The quality of the connectors is based upon the specific needs of the customers. ACC often uses expensive materials in the production process of their connectors. They also have a very tight delivery system, which enables to company to deliver on time. Quality does come at a relatively high price as an extra quality check is set up in the end of the production ...

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