APPLYING POSTPONEMENT STRATEGY TO INVENTORY MANAGEMENT
研究通过将制造延迟策略应用于一家木制家具制造商，推迟最终生产环节直至客户明确需求，使两个试点产品类别的平均库存成本分别降低30.3%和21.3%，库存周转率分别提升43.4%和27.1%。
The purpose of this research is to improve inventory cost and turnover of a manufacturer of wooden furniture by applying manufacturing postponement strategy. This allows a firm to postpone the final manufacturing process until a customer’ s specific demand. Documentary data, such as production process and lead times, sales data, customer behaviors, and delivery lead times, were collected and analyzed in order to develop a new production process. Excel worksheets were created for controlling overall inventory transactions and movements. The results of the existing and postponement production processes were compared, to identify improvements. The findings were that the average inventory costs of the two pilot product categories could be reduced by 30.3% and 21.3%, and the average inventory turnovers could be improved by 43.4% and 27.1 %.