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  Best Practices: Planning: Standardize Products
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Company: Southwest Airlines

Vision: Become high growth, high profit airline by providing reliable, no frills service that is affordable to all.

Challenge: Simultaneously achieve reliability, affordability and profits.

Solution: Operate at the lowest cost though the highest productivity through standardization, especially the fleet.

Benefits of Standardization:
1. Reduced pilot and maintenance training.
2. Flexibility for equipment swaps
3. Reduced inventory 
4. Increased purchasing leverage

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March 29, 2000
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