For example, for the same capital cost and ROI, LED lighting may be beneficial in a New Jersey factory, while a new water management system may provide more bang for the buck in a similar factory in California.
The speed of the newsystem is limited by how fast suppliers can get parts to the factory and by some of the early projections Toyota makes for options and colors.
The firm added that the newsystem also needed to be installed while cars were being built in the factory - meaning it would have to be ordered up front - and it would be limited to seven out of 11 models in the company's current line-up.
The company's new in-house system can track every piece of HP hardware and project its sales potential from a factory in Thailand to a store in Biloxi, Mississippi.