... factor relates primarily to cost reducing alternatives (lot sizes, quantity discounts, price increase hedges, etc.). Although inventory alignment strategies must deal with these factors as the purposes for its existence, customers are interested in other factors in making their selections. Customer...

... management Strategy Customer requirements The lean and agile paradigms, though distinctly different, can be and have been combined within successfully designed and operated total supply chains. This paper will show how the need for agility and leanness depends upon the total supply chain strategy...

...Michael Robertson; Carole Jones Agile manufacturing, a strategy developed from lean production methods, is aimed at providing companies with the capabilities to succeed in the twenty‐first century, serving ever more sophisticated customer demand. In this paper, the application of this strategy...