Night Writer,
"As I understand it cpq is not going to BTO, but ODM."
That's what I understand Compaq to be saying, now. I believe that last summer they were talking about BTO, but that may just be what the press was calling it. As I understood it, they were going to build to order for large sales that would be credited to a distributor or retailer, and ship partially built PCs to distributors that could be completed to order by the retailers (HD, CPU, etc.). This would give them flexibility at the retail level, reduce inventory somewhat, and enable them to deliver an order faster, but the problem with obsolescence of components in the distribution chain, either in the computer or in boxes next to the computer, while reduced somewhat, still remains the big problem.
Jack |
