It is expected that, as the next step in the development of distribution channels, companies will decentralize their final manufacturing into their distribution centers. It has also been suggested that companies are increasingly beginning to customize products based on customer orders. Both the...

Explains that postponed manufacturing applications are a combination of form, time and place postponement in which final processing of generic base products to meet customer specifications at central locations in the supply chain is followed by delivery to customers. Postponed manufacturing has...