Harold Kutner
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Harold Kutner
additional benefits customers design earlier environmental fuel gm helps improves involved lead partners process provide quality reduce time vehicles
Having suppliers involved as partners earlier in the engineering process helps reduce lead time and improves quality for our customers. GM also will be able to design more cost-effective vehicles for customers that will provide additional environmental benefits and better fuel economy.
car customer major match point process request route specific thousands transit vehicles
There are thousands of vehicles around the world in transit going to dealers for inventory. If we get a specific configuration request from a customer and can match that to a car en route to a dealer, we can relocate that vehicle from the point it is going to, to where the customer is. That would be a major part of the process of a build-to-order environment.