Postponement strategy

Product delayed differentiation is a form postponement strategy used in mass... 

The first condition also applies to any product line that relies on commonality for postponement strategies as described in Section 28.5.5. The latter certainly applies to the innovative product described in Chapter 5.1.3. 

The Plan process covers the boundaries of the supply chain under consideration. As shown in Figure 23.1, this is presumed to be a multicompany affair. Each supply chain component can have Source, Make, and Deliver processes. These may be more or less important from partner to partner. For example, one partner may be a distribution company. Its Make component could be minor or nonexistent. Of course, a "make" capability could be significant as part of a postponement strategy. With postponement, also described in Chapter 26, the supplier commits to the final configuration late in the process — often in response to actual customer orders. 

In a similar vein, HP used a postponement strategy to add peripherals to its core printer at a distribution center in Europe the objective was to customize the printer to the different needs of European customers (language, power supply etc.). 

The necessity for urgent cardioversion is less well established in hemodynamically stable patients with AF It may be wise to postpone cardioversion till the procedure is finished, and to limit the antiarrhythmic interventions to rate control, Despite this wisdom, the management of these patients has traditionally been dominated by a drive to restore and maintain sinus rhythm—the so-called rhythm-control strategy (37-39). From a short-term perspective, hemodynamic measurements may be more correct, and some procedures may require this. If cardioversion is performed in this, more or less elective, setting precaution to prevent emboli is warranted. TEE may be helpful to take a better and faster decision there are procedures with a transesophageal probe in place, and the threshold to cardiovert can be low. 

The key parameters to be controlled in this sub-system are air mass flow rate and pressure. Therefore, this section is focused on the characteristics of devices capable to realize useful pressure and flow rate of the oxidant feed (blowers and compressors), postponing the discussion about the integration of air supply system with the other FCS sub-systems to the successive three sections, which are dedicated to thermal and water management strategies and to overall system performance optimization. 

In this chapter we focus our attention on the use of the fluorescence of adsorbed dyes to explore the competition between the processes which determine 0. Then, whenever comparison with 0 is possible. Information can be obtained also about 0g. The basic strategy relies on measuring either or 0 when injection is blocked (kj = 0, e.g., on an insulator surface) and when it is not, while assuming that kg is the same in both cases (7,9,10). Questions have been raised recently about the validity of this assumption, which attributes to injection any reduction in either T or 0 for dyes adsorbed on semiconductors. We postpone consideration of other processes which could play an important role until the experimental results are presented. 

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