A Manufacturing Strategy for Product Assembly in a Supply Chain Environment
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چکیده
The intense competition in manufacturing and the need to introduce new products faster have forced manufacturers to explore unconventional methods of meeting these challenges. In that endeavor, postponement as a new manufacturing strategy has evolved. The research reported in this paper is based on the postponement strategy. A multi-echelon supply chain consisting of a retailer, a warehouse and an assembly plant was considered to evaluate the postponement strategy. It was concluded that postponement is a cost-effective manufacturing strategy for the hypothetical supply chain investigated.
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