Make to Order & Economies of Scale. are they opposite?
Is “make to order” opposite of economies of scale production or bulk production One question that I have been asking for a very long time but never got a satisfactory answer is about make to order & economies of scale. To me the rise of China was because of bulk manufacturing or economies of scale along with lower labor rates which lowered down their cost of production to a great extent, even though that resulted in poor quality, huge rejection etc. but admit it the lower cost has always attracted investors from the globe despite of heavy rejection and sub standard quality initially, later the companies set up qualities standards which oblige chinese manufacture to follow those standards, but still the cost of production was low due to bulk buying bulk manufacturing. However the modern supply chain concepts focus on make to order, popularly DELL (which again do import most of their components from CHINA. I know China is now changing its strategy and it is also focusing on maintaining t
