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Postponement strategies in supply chain management

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: International Series in Operations research & Management Science, Vol.143Publication details: Heidelberg Springer 2010 Description: xviii, 166 pISBN:
  • 9781441958365
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.78
Summary: 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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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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