Naylor et al. (1999) argued that these two paradigms that were different from one another could be used in leagile strategy. In this one, strategies are not used together against one another. When organizations recognized that merging lean and agile strategies will bring a great advantage and superiority, leagility strategy emerged (Gaudenzi and Christopher, 2016). Many researchers have explored the leagile strategy in which lean and agile strategies are used simultaneously (Naylor et al., 1999; Childerhouse and Towill, 2000; Mason-Jones et al., 2000a; Christopher and Towill, 2000; Huang et al., 2002; Stratton and Warburton, 2003; Simchi-Levi et al., …show more content…
The postponement strategy aims at reducing the risks related to the product diversity through the joint utilization of materials and components and designing the production and distribution processes in a way to postpone the differentiation point (Van Hoek, 2000; Shao and Ji,