Leagility in a Triad with Multiple Decoupling Points

Joakim Wikner (1) , Jenny Bäckstrand (1) , Fredrik Tiedemann (1) , Eva Johansson (1)

1 Jönköping University [Sweden]

Leagility is a strategic concept that represents a combination of lean and agile. Lean is assumed to be a cost-based strategy that is appropriate in a forecast-driven context upstream of the customer order decoupling point (CODP). Agile is the corresponding flexibility-based strategy in a customer-order-driven context downstream of the CODP. Competitive advantage is based on that the position of the CODP is aligned with the market requirements. In a dyad setting this alignment can be realized with relative ease but in a triad setting it becomes more complicated if both supply actors pursue a leagile strategy. If lean based purchasing faces an agile based delivery strategy or the opposite, where agile based purchasing faces a lean based delivery strategy, the interface is misaligned. In this paper, four interface configurations are identified and empirical examples of each are given based on a case study.

Mots clés: Leagility; Lean; Agile; Lead-time; Supplier relations; Decoupling points

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Joakim Wikner, Jenny Bäckstrand, Fredrik Tiedemann, Eva Johansson. Leagility in a Triad with Multiple Decoupling Points. IFIP International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems (APMS), Sep 2015, Tokyo, Japan. pp.113-120, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-22756-6_14⟩. ⟨hal-01417410⟩