Implications of form postponement to manufacturing a customized product

A structural approach to assessing postponement strategies: construct development and validation

“…And by form postponement, he means changing the sequence of activities which form the product and/or move the differentiation activities towards supply chain downstream. Form postponement has been defined similarly in other studies (for example see Skipworth andHarrison, 2004 andForza et al, 2008). Lee's (1998) definition of logistics postponement is mainly linked with moving the place of one or some operations.…”

“…Measuring the level at which a postponement strategy is employed facilitates the (Davila and Wouters, 2007), inventory cost (Aviv and Federgruen, 2001), delivery lead time (Skipworth and Harrison, 2006), supply chain flexibility (Nair, 2005), responsiveness (Forza et al, 2008), and cost (Davila and Wouters, 2007). By measuring postponement, its benefits/costs can be assessed and analysed in more detail.…”

Mass customization strategy development by FIRM

“…Postponement of product differentiation, which adds customized parts to the modular components on the basis of a customer ' s unique order, likewise lowers the costs and risk of holding fi nished products inventories. 38 Well-integrated logistics information systems, highly coordinated supply chain links, just-in-time ( JIT) inventory systems and virtual integration among channel members are other components that fi rms need to handle for logistic purpose. 18,39 Classifying fi rms relative to their manufacturing and supply chain readiness is therefore crucial.…”

Implications of form postponement to manufacturing: a cross case comparison

“…Our first study (Skipworth and Harrison, 2004) featured a manufacturer of specialist high voltage cabling equipment which we called 'Electrico'; the second was a manufacturer of industrial electric motors we called 'Motorco' (Skipworth and Harrison, 2006). In addition to describing the cases and the results of our investigations in each, these papers provide our conceptual model of FPp, together with a review of relevant literature which we do not repeat in this paper.…”