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Insert name Professor’s name Course/class Date Case Study What elements define a value for the customers of the Romulus plant? There are two elements that define customers for the Romulus plant. The first element is convenience. In this case, the Romulus plant’s production has specialized on a single product (car seats) that serves a single customer thereby ensuring that focus is on this customer. The second element is operational efficiency whereby customer and Romulus plant operations are synchronized such that seats are delivered on time and in the order in which they are needed. This ensures that the customer does not experience production delays. The third element is location whereby the plant is located 38 miles from its customer thus ensuring that the seats can speedily and easily be moved using the available road network. The third element is production similarity. Romulus plant receives its raw materials packaged in batches for each seat and ends up sending each finished seat when required. This facilitates quality tracking for all seats. The fourth element is capacity since Romulus plant has managed to meet its customer’s needs by producing all the seats required by Warren. The final element is warehousing and storage whereby Romulus offers temporary storage to consolidate the produced seats so that Warren does not require storage for these seats and only needs to install them when received. What is the role of logistics and logistics considerations in the success of the Romulus plant? Romulus plant’s success can be attributed to its logistics considerations, particularly its strategy of easing logistics operations. Firstly, the plant is
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