Table 3 The process of change across the...

Table 3

The process of change across the three considered UoAs

	Past UoA	Current UoA	Future UoA
Postponement implementation	Speculation	Packaging postponement	Packaging postponement entailing localised supply
What	No postponement	Packaging products into shippers	Packaging products into shippers, Sourcing shipper packages
Where	All in the UK	In the Irish market (nearer to customers)	In the Irish market (nearer to customers)
Who	Suppliers A and B	Supplier B and C	Supplier C
When	According to the forecast	Either according to the forecast or when customer orders are received	Either according to the forecast or when customer orders are received
Related activities	Speculating	Localised manufacturing	Localised manufacturing + localised supply
Manufacturing	Products are manufactured in the European region and moved to the UK	→	→
Warehousing	Products are packaged in full pallets at the main distribution centre located in the UK	→	→
	Full pallets are unpacked and re-packaged into full shippers at Supplier A’s warehouse	Delaying packaging products into shippers and moving the activity to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market	→
			Shipper packages will be purchased locally
Transport	The full shippers are shipped to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market	Products and shippers are separately bulk shipped from the UK to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market	Only products will be bulk shipped from the UK to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market

	Past UoA	Current UoA	Future UoA
Postponement implementation	Speculation	Packaging postponement	Packaging postponement entailing localised supply
What	No postponement	Packaging products into shippers	Packaging products into shippers, Sourcing shipper packages
Where	All in the UK	In the Irish market (nearer to customers)	In the Irish market (nearer to customers)
Who	Suppliers A and B	Supplier B and C	Supplier C
When	According to the forecast	Either according to the forecast or when customer orders are received	Either according to the forecast or when customer orders are received
Related activities	Speculating	Localised manufacturing	Localised manufacturing + localised supply
Manufacturing	Products are manufactured in the European region and moved to the UK	→	→
Warehousing	Products are packaged in full pallets at the main distribution centre located in the UK	→	→
	Full pallets are unpacked and re-packaged into full shippers at Supplier A’s warehouse	Delaying packaging products into shippers and moving the activity to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market	→
			Shipper packages will be purchased locally
Transport	The full shippers are shipped to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market	Products and shippers are separately bulk shipped from the UK to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market	Only products will be bulk shipped from the UK to Supplier C’s DC in the Irish market

Note(s):

The arrows indicate that once the actions (i.e. the SC operations) so designated were implemented, they were maintained over the next UoA. The arrows also show that the focal firm’s action repertoire expanded over time

Source(s): Authors’ own work

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