POSTPONED MANUFACTURING SUPPLEMENTARY TO TRANSPORTATION SERVICES?

This paper empirically assesses the economic size, in terms of full-time equivalent employees (FTEs), of postponed manufacturing applications and related activities. Based on a survey among 782 companies, the differences in size and scope of applications between manufacturers, wholesalers, and logistics service providers are assessed. Currently, relatively simple postponement applications are practiced in wholesale and logistics services as supplementary services. More complex, high-value adding manufacturing activities are still the primary domain of manufacturers and these are not often outsourced to logistics service providers. Based on future expectations of respondents, this need not stay this way.

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• Authors:
  • van Hoek, R I
  • van Dierdonck, R
• Publication Date: 2000-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 205-217
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review
  • Volume: 36
  • Issue Number: 3
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 1366-5545
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13665545

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Economic factors; Forecasting; Industry structure; Logistics; Manufacturing; Transportation; Transportation operations; Wholesale trade
• Subject Areas: Economics; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00795976
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Jul 10 2000 12:00AM