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The relationships between postponement strategies and manufacturing performance in supply chains. An industrial perspective

2010 LogForum  
The postponement strategy is one of the most popular concepts, widely implemented in contemporary supply chains.  ...  Although the in-depth empirical studies have been conducted on postponement strategy, there is still a dearth of research concerning effects of different types of postponement on supply chain performance  ...  Therefore, the location of material decupling point is often perceived as a primary tool to indicate an extent of the application of postponement strategies in the supply chains.  ... 
doaj:ffa298b58fe94af191c657a8e981c712 fatcat:xap6wh6255du7ezcjpelr2aize

The use of Postponement Decisions in Determining Supply Chain Strategies of Light Vehicle Manufacturers in South Africa

Intaher Marcus Ambe
2017 Journal of Economics and Behavioral Studies  
With regard to postponement decisions, the study found that all the light vehicle manufacturers made use of a lean supply chain strategy, while a few made use of an agile supply chain strategy.  ...  Therefore, the majority of the light vehicle manufacturers employed lean supply chain strategies in their inbound and outbound supply chain, while a few employed an agile supply chain strategy in their  ...  These points indicate different degrees of application of postponement strategies in supply chains.  ... 
doi:10.22610/jebs.v9i3.1757 fatcat:2y5f3crjyrbqbbbxfzogy2yjdy

The rediscovery of postponement a literature review and directions for research

R.I van Hoek
2001 Journal of Operations Management  
For instance, the development of a more integrated supply chain perspective on postponement, and the application of triangulation rather than single methods.  ...  Postponement means delaying activities in the supply chain until customer orders are received with the intention of customizing products, as opposed to performing those activities in anticipation of future  ...  It starts with the ex ante assessment of postponement applications in the supply chain, using Fig. 3 for developing and evaluating supply chain structures within an integrated framework.  ... 
doi:10.1016/s0272-6963(00)00057-7 fatcat:7nnkw3tifzh4tdioyrz6pltzdm

Decoupling Point Strategies Promoting Supply Chain Performance of Manufacturing firms Listed in Nairobi Stock Exchange in Kenya

Caroline Purity Ngomo, Jackson Ndolo
2022 Zenodo  
The study sought to establish the influence of leagility specifically postponement strategies on supply chain performance in the Kenyan manufacturing firms Listed in the Nairobi Securities Exchange context  ...  Key finding of the study was that postponement strategies had a positive and significant influence on supply chain performance with a correlation coefficient of 0.883.  ...  The study therefore concludes that an improvement in adoption of appropriate postponement management strategies leads to an improved performance of manufacturing firms supply chains to a great extent.  ... 
doi:10.5281/zenodo.6535173 fatcat:xjaskkckkbbwfn3l4g2m6pvv6q

Concurrent design of product modules structure and global supply chain configurations

H. A. ElMaraghy, N. Mahmoudi
2009 International journal of computer integrated manufacturing (Print)  
Figure 7 . optimal set of product structure scenario and supply chain configuration under changes in the market demand Postponement strategies in product design and supply chain configurations Postponement  ...  In this example, the choice of employing postponement strategy did not affect the optimal supply chain configuration but it affected the total cost of the supply chain as explained above.  ... 
doi:10.1080/09511920802389553 fatcat:54qsgkmbfvbvvjasgmxbmuj4wm

Concurrent Design of Product Modules Structure and Global Supply Chain Configuration [chapter]

H. A., N. Mahmoudi
2008 Supply Chain  
Figure 7 . optimal set of product structure scenario and supply chain configuration under changes in the market demand Postponement strategies in product design and supply chain configurations Postponement  ...  In this example, the choice of employing postponement strategy did not affect the optimal supply chain configuration but it affected the total cost of the supply chain as explained above.  ... 
doi:10.5772/5348 fatcat:g55jt7b2xvb3xdjcsxqcnq5vnq

Postponement Application in the Fast Fashion Supply Chain: A Review

MdAfzalul Aftab, Qin Yuanjian, Nadia Kabir
2017 International Journal of Business and Management  
The successful implementation of push-pull supply chain management strategy has an important role in improving the competitiveness of an organization.  ...  One of the vital building blocks of push-pull supply chain strategy is postponement.  ...  Acknowledgements The authors are most grateful to Professor Qin Yuanjian for his constructive and helpful comments on the paper, ijbm.ccsenet.org International Journal of Business and Management Vol.  ... 
doi:10.5539/ijbm.v12n7p115 fatcat:yuygaxnpn5gfho5zhx6yhq2s2u

Analysis of Postponement Strategy in Paint Retailing: A Case Study

Hemlata Sunhare
2019 Industrial Engineering Journal  
In this paper, an attempt is made to find out the factors that will improve supply chain performance using postponement strategy.  ...  The postponement strategy in supply chain management can enhance a company's flexibility to effectively meet the requirements of the growing varieties of product and quick deliveries.  ...  Postponement strategy is one of such types of technique that smartly improve the effectiveness of supply chain.  ... 
doi:10.26488/iej.12.7.1176 fatcat:tks4aqnxlzefxfnppzcvbixbj4

Postponement: an inter-organizational perspective

Biao Yang, Ying Yang, Jacob Wijngaard
2007 International Journal of Production Research  
This view opens up more opportunities for postponement applications, since a company may make up a delay in the speed of one of the supply chain areas (resulting from a postponement strategy) by improving  ...  A successful application of postponement thus requires agreements that strengthen buyer-supplier cooperation in supply chain and network.  ... 
doi:10.1080/00207540600698886 fatcat:vd3zn3jhnnbhxdq54ditozin7q

Postponement in supply chain risk management: a complexity perspective

Biao Yang, Ying Yang
2009 International Journal of Production Research  
This has not been addressed in the current supply chain management literature Application of NAT in Postponement To view postponement from a complexity perspective, the starting premise of this section  ...  With such an outsourcing strategy, HP reduces its supply chain risk exposure (i.e. transport uncertainty within in Europe) as well.  ... 
doi:10.1080/00207540902791850 fatcat:7mftc3cxmzcw7iets66dlm4cwm

Classification of Postponement Strategies and Performance Metrics Framework

Cheng Zhang, Gek-Woo Tan
2001 Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems  
Over time, the scope and application of postponement has expanded to various aspects in the supply chain.  ...  This paper surveys various types of postponement and classifies them based on the view of reconfiguration of the supply chain network, which contains form, time and place postponement.  ...  The postponement becomes a strategy-level activity of an enterprise, and requires close cooperation with other attendees in the chain.  ... 
dblp:conf/pacis/ZhangT01 fatcat:lxqkw3gdc5a5tj6ffdzv6i2etm

Differentiation strategies for defence supply chain design

Thomas Ekström, Per Hilletofth, Per Skoglund
2020 Journal of Defense Analytics and Logistics  
This raises the question of how suitable commercial supply chain strategies (SCSs) are for supply chain design (SCD) in defence.  ...  Purpose Defence supply chains (SCs) aim at operational outcomes, and armed forces depend on them to provide availability and preparedness in peace and sustainability in war.  ...  Acceptable, applicable and sufficient defence supply chain strategies The panellists concluded that the SCSs in Table 2 are acceptable and applicable in defence SCD.  ... 
doi:10.1108/jdal-06-2020-0011 fatcat:peqqsc7xmvgfvewogh4q4tso5a

Demand-oriented Supply Chain Strategies – A Review of the Literature

Chuda Basnet, Stefan Seuring
2016 Operations and Supply Chain Management An International Journal  
Stefan has published various papers on sustainable supply chain management, but also on supply chain strategy and the application of management accounting tools across supply chains.  ...  The purpose of this article is to review articles which have been published after Fisher (1997), and which relate market demand for a product to the respective supply chain design, in an effort to synthesise  ...  ., 2009; Lo & Power, 2010 9 Supply chain integration An integrated supply chain consists of flow of information upstream and streamlined flow of materials downstream of the supply chain.  ... 
doi:10.31387/oscm0240162 fatcat:3mesp2z4nfhfjeqemr2ubd6cze

Comparison of production strategies and degree of postponement when incorporating additive manufacturing to product supply chains

J. Minguella-Canela, A. Muguruza, D.R. Lumbierres, F.-Javier Heredia, R. Gimeno, P. Guo, M. Hamilton, K. Shastry, S. Webb
2017 Procedia Manufacturing  
The study offered in the present paper compares different possible production strategies for a product (via conventional technologies and Additive Manufacturing) and assesses the degree of postponement  ...  The study offered in the present paper compares different possible production strategies for a product (via conventional technologies and Additive Manufacturing) and assesses the degree of postponement  ...  ultra-postponement with 3D printing by using analytical tools and mathematical optimization models and algorithms" as well as the inputs of the companies participating in the study as the catalyst for  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.promfg.2017.09.181 fatcat:zpylw66p7jcnfi3ihabxmqd7qm

The Selection of Global Supply Chain Risk Management Strategies by Using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process – A Case from Turkey

Çiğdem Sofyalıoğlu, Burak Kartal
2012 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences  
The research is conducted with the supply chain management of a company operating in the iron and steel industry.  ...  Many developments associated with globalization have forced companies to manage their supply chains effectively and to mitigate various kinds of chain risks in them.  ...  It is obvious that an important issue in GSCM is managing risks in global supply chains. the process of risk mitigation achieved through collaboration, co-ordination and application of risk management  ... 
doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.09.1131 fatcat:j45ise5vqncutbvo42c2fvv2ke
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