Please Read the Case Study OM in the News: Does Tesla Have a Quality Problem? Jay. Barry and Chuck's OM Blog.(wpcomstaging com) Answer the following questions in your own sentences. Questions 1. What is Tesla's biggest OM issue? (1 page) 2.Why is the company only producing high-option models of Tesla 3? (1 page) 3.References (1 page) Tesla has been parking hundreds and hundreds of cars at lots and industrial buildings in Burbank, Antioch, and Lathrop, Calif, reports The New York Times (Oct. 2, 2018). Last week, a batch of about 100 Model 3 s turned up in Bellevue, Wash., with smaller collections in Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. The parked vehicles were discovered over the last A car in the Seotfsdale lot marked "inw, or two months by amateur detectives who closely intentory, indicating it has no buyer, with senviee follow the company stock. needs noted. Elon Musk recently acknowledged that the company was having difficulty shipping cars to customers, saying Tesla was in "delivery logistics hell." He attributed the problem to a shortage of trucks to haul cars around the country. But the Auto Haulers. Association says it is not aware of any shortage of car hanlers, and that other automakers that are not having shipping troubles. Is Tesla simply gathering can together before shipping them to customers, or bringing cars with defects together to repair them before delivery? If the former, it suggests Tesla failed in a critical task it didn't set up an efficient way of dellvering hundreds of cars a day as it was scrambling to produce s,0oo a week. A more worrisome problem wonld be if Tesla bult these cars and now doesnt have customers willing to take them. Musk had Jong promised that the Model 3 would be avallable for as little as $35,000. But the least costly version avallable now starts at $49,000. In some cases, cars have beea marked - with a bar-coded sticker or with grease pencil on the windshield - to indicate that they are inventory vehicles, meaning they have no customers awaiting them. Some markings indicate repairs required before the cars can be sold. In the rush to ramp up Model 3 production, Tesla has faced growing issues with vehicle quality, Some customers have complained that cars arrived with scratches, loose parts and other manufacturing defects. And a new headache has cropped up: severe shortages of replacement parts. Owners needing repairs have complained of waiting a month or longer for parts. Classroom discussion questions: 1. What is Tesla's biggest OM issue? 2. Why is the company oaly producing hizh-option models of Teala 3