The Optimal Combination of Postponement Operations in a Supply Chain

供應鏈延遲作業組合最佳化

10.29977/JCIIE.200605.0009

饒忻(Hsin Rau)；劉慶國(Ching-Kuo Liu)

延遲 ； 最小成本網路 ； 供應鏈管理 ； Postponement ； Minimum Cost Network ； Supply Chain Management

工業工程學刊

23卷3期（2006 / 05 / 01）

253 - 261

英文

延遲為供應鏈上實施已久的一個策略，目的在於降低需求的不確定及提升產品的客製化，其為延後供應鏈上的作業直到顧客客製化的訂單確定之後再進行，而不是按照傳統預期的作業去執行。一般在探討延遲的數學模式中，學者大多著重於探討製造延遲的部份，本研究主要針對於供應鏈上延遲作業組合（製造、包裝及物流延遲）的施行建立供應鏈網路，並建立相對應的數學模式，並以筆記型電腦的作業環境為探討的實證。期許企業在本身供應鏈能力所及的情況下，選擇最適當延遲策略的組合，在供應鏈總體成本最小化的評估之下，提供企業生產決策的一個參考。

In modeling postponement, most researchers focus on the manufacturing postponement; whereas this study extends it to the postponement of supply chain operations, namely, manufacturing, packaging, and logistics. We use a notebook computer supply chain as an example to model the optimal combinations among these operations' postponement. The results of this study can serve as a management tool to help determine the optimal supply chain operations for taking various postponements into consideration.

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