TY  - JOUR
AB  - Shows how the lean and agile paradigms may be selected according to marketplace requirements. These are distinctly different, since in the first case the market winner is cost, whereas in the second case the market winner is availability. Agile supply chains are required to be market sensitive and hence nimble. This means that the definition of waste is different from that appropriate to lean supply. The proper location of decoupling points for material flow and information flow enable a hybrid supply chain to be engineered. This encourages lean (efficient) supply upstream and agile (effective) supply downstream, thus bringing together the best of both paradigms. The paper concludes by proposing a cyclic migratory model which describes the PC supply chain attributes during its evolution from traditional to its present customised “leagile” operation.
VL  - 5
IS  - 4
SN  - 1359-8546
DO  - 10.1108/13598540010347334
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/13598540010347334
AU  - Martin C
AU  - Towill Denis R.
PY  - 2000
Y1  - 2000/01/01
TI  - Supply chain migration from lean and functional to agile and customised
T2  - Supply Chain Management: An International Journal
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 206
EP  - 213
Y2  - 2024/04/20
ER  -