The experimental results showed that tempo-postponement design will increase the flexibility and quick response for supply chain management.
Manufacturing factors incorporated in the model include factory location, inventory, economies of scale, product design, and postponement.
An industrial case is presented which requires both modular design and postponement, in a contractor/supplier context, where the supplier must respond in a short delay time and provide a total diversified production which is deliver in the order wished by the contractor.
Today, environmentalists said that the shorter period of postponement, combined with interim measures designed to spur sales of low-emission cars like gasoline-electric hybrids, represented a significant victory.
To really reap the benefits of global sourcing, manufacturers are likely to increase the share of generic components, design the product for postponement, or at a minimum decrease the value of unique parts that require local sourcing.
Four constructs of flexibility and three constructs of postponement – namely volume flexibility, mix flexibility, new product design flexibility, product modification flexibility, manufacturing postponement, ordering postponement and product design postponement – are identified, and measured variables for each construct are extracted from the literature.
"Prop 23 is designed to kill by indefinite postponement California's effort to clean up the environment," said Mr. Shultz.
We consider a green supply chain design that considers CO2 transport emissions under different postponement strategy scenarios using a simulation tool.
This paper focuses on the design of components and assemblies for mass customization with product delay differentiation (postponement).
While manufacturing postponement and ordering postponement are supported by supplier volume and mix flexibilities, design postponement is only related with product modification flexibility.
