Postponement strategies in supply chain management
Material type:
- 9781441958365
- 658.78
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Within supply chain management (SCM), postponement is a deliberate action to delay final manufacturing or distribution of a product until receipt of a customer order. This reduces the incidence of wrong manufacturing or incorrect inventory deployment. Postponement strategies and practices serve to reduce the anticipatory risk in a supply chain. It can be fine-tuned or staged so that only the generic parts shared by a firmDsvariousendproductsarewarehoused,usedonlyonceorderscomeinforwhicheverproductsareselling,andwillreduceinventorypressuresthroughoutthefirm.Despitemuchexistingresearchinthearea,noonebookdevotedsolelytopostponementhasbeenpublished.(http://www.springer.com)
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