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Delayed Product Differentiation

Delayed Product Differentiation is a postponement strategy in supply chain management that delays the point of product customization or divergence until actual customer demand is known, thereby reducing demand uncertainty and inventory costs by maintaining product commonality for as long as possible.

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2.4K

Citations

81

Authors

61

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

5

Variants

Product Postponement

Parents

Publications

37

Modelling the Costs and Benefits of Delayed Product Differentiation

Hau L. Lee, Christopher S. Tang · Management Science · 1997 · 620 citations

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Quality Leadership when Regulatory Standards are Forthcoming

Stefan Lutz, Thomas P. Lyon, John W. Maxwell · Journal of Industrial Economics · 2000 · 200 citations

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Make-to-order, make-to-stock, or delay product differentiation? A common framework for modeling and analysis

Diwakar Gupta, Saif Benjaafar · IIE Transactions · 2004 · 198 citations · Full text

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On postponement strategies for product families with multiple points of differentiation

Amit Garg, Christopher S. Tang · IIE Transactions · 1997 · 163 citations

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Capacitated Multi-Item Inventory Systems with Random and Seasonally Fluctuating Demands: Implications for Postponement Strategies

Yossi Aviv, Awi Federgruen · Management Science · 2001 · 146 citations

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Authors

81

  1. AK
    Andrew Kusiak

    University of Iowa, United States

    3 publications · 147 citations

    3

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  2. HE
    Hoda ElMaraghy

    University of Windsor, Canada

    3 publications · 128 citations

    3

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  3. MJ
    Michael J. Magazine

    University of Cincinnati, United States

    2 publications · 94 citations

    2

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  4. TA
    Tarek AlGeddawy

    University of Windsor, Canada

    2 publications · 96 citations

    2

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  5. CS
    Christopher S. Tang

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 783 citations

    2

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Institutions

61

  1. University of Iowa

    Iowa City, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    269 citations

  2. University of Windsor

    Windsor, Canada

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    256 citations

  3. University of Cincinnati

    Cincinnati, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    94 citations

  4. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    651 citations

  5. University of California, Los Angeles

    Los Angeles, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    783 citations

  6. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    425 citations

  7. National Tsing Hua University

    Hsinchu, Taiwan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  8. American Airlines (United States)

    Fort Worth, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

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Venues

  1. International Journal of Production Research

    12 publications · 436 citations

    11

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  2. European Journal of Operational Research

    5 publications · 158 citations

    5

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  3. Management Science

    2 publications · 766 citations

    2

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  4. IIE Transactions

    2 publications · 361 citations

    2

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  5. Production and Operations Management

    POMS · 2 publications · 82 citations

    2

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