TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cheng,T.C.Edwin
AU  - Li,Jian
AU  - Wan,C.L.Johnny
AU  - Wang,Shouyang
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Postponement Strategies in Supply Chain Management
T2  - International Series in Operations Research & Management Science,
SN  - 9781441958372
AV  - HD30.23 
U1  - 658.40301 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Springer New York, Imprint: Springer
KW  - Economics
KW  - Industrial engineering
KW  - Operations research
KW  - Economics/Management Science
KW  - Operation Research/Decision Theory
KW  - Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management
KW  - Industrial and Production Engineering
N1  - Analysis of Pull Postponement by EOQ-based Models -- Analysis of Postponement Strategy by EPQ-based Models -- Evaluation of a Postponement System with an (r, q) Policy -- Simulation of a Two-End-Product Postponement System -- Application of Postponement: Examples from Industry -- Conclusions, Implications and Future Research Directions
N2  - 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 firm’s various end products are warehoused, used only once orders come in for whichever products are selling, and will reduce inventory pressures throughout the firm. Despite much existing research in the area, no one book devoted solely to postponement has been published. At its core, Postponement Strategies in Supply Chain Management analyzes how both pull postponement strategy and form postponement strategy can be leveraged to yield substantial benefits to adopting firms in different competitive environments. The book is intended for researchers in supply chain management interested in conducting in-depth studies on postponement strategies. It is also intended for practitioners trying to understand the workings of postponement strategies and looking for guidance and decision support for the implementation of postponement strategies. Therefore, the book can be useful not only for researchers but also for practitioners and graduate students in operations management, management science, and business administration
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