The Cost-Effective Influential Study of Implementing Postponement Strategies in Manufacturers and Distribution Centers― A Case Study of Clothing Industry

• Main Authors: Chia-Jung Lee, 李佳蓉
• Other Authors: I-Chiang Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83923015004290605038

碩士 === 南台科技大學 === 行銷與流通管理系 === 94 === The Enterprises would like to not only fit the present consuming ways of less quantity, diverse products, and one-stop shopping but also change the modes of production from constant methods to separate all productive steps. The final goal for companies is improving service standards and reducing the operating cost. This study wants to use postponement strategies to set up a cost model from manufacturers to distribution centers and exploits the model to compare the difference between using and disusing postponement strategies. This study takes advantage of related data to prove the accuracy and possibility of this model. This study explores that if using postponement strategies could reduce the operating cost in cost view. The constructing model has two parts: (1) the manufacturers’ total cost: orders processing cost, materials’ purchasing cost, materials’ holding cost, manufacturing cost, finished goods’ holding cost, transportation cost. (2) the distribution centers’ total cost: orders processing cost, inventories’ holding cost, distributing cost. Finally, this study uses a clothing manufacturer and a clothing distribution center as examples to analyze the related data. The findings are following: (1) Using postponement strategies could reduce the quantity of uncertain demand and decrease the expenditure of orders processing cost, materials’ purchasing cost, inventories’ holding cost, manufacturing cost, and transportation cost. (2) As the quantity of specifications and types are larger, using postponement strategies will reduce more total cost.