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Willem Selen

The Postponement Strategy from a Supply Chain Perspective

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Reader rating: 4 out of 5

Paper

Postponement strategy from a supply chain perspective: cases from China
Year: 
2007

If you think about it. Postponement is one of the more involving strategies available in supply chain management. At least from a design perspective, postponement requires changes to the value-generation process, which may comprise several echelons within the supply chain.

The paper I review today analyzed the implementation of postponement strategies in China and suggests factors to help with the decision which kind of postponement to select.