Postponement is a well‐known organizational concept and usually relates to the deferment in time of manufacturing and/or logistics operations. In the current global competitive landscape, situations where postponement can be applied are rapidly increasing. Faced with the wide range of customs duties and free‐trade agreements currently in place, companies need to (re)design their postponement strategies to customize their products appropriately, and to the proper degree, in each market. As the actual location where operations take place has a major impact on a company’s overall performance, the spatial perspective must also be taken into account when designing global postponement strategies, alongside the conventional temporal perspective. Heretofore, the academic literature does not offer any comprehensive framework on a global scale either for handling what is known as the postponement boundary problem, or for conceptualizing the related postponement strategies. Building on previous research, the aim of the present study was to investigate the postponement concept in a global environment with a downstream focus. The intended purpose is twofold: first, to review and expand previous studies on the subject and, second, to provide some guidelines for conceptualizing global postponement strategies. A structured literature review was first conducted, followed by the development of a framework that combines both the temporal and the spatial dimensions. Finally, the framework was applied to a group of 28 business cases taken from the literature, to act as a bridge between academic theories and practitioners’ current business operations.

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全球下游供应链的延迟策略：概念框架

推迟是众所周知的组织概念，通常与制造和/或物流运营时间的延迟有关。在当前的全球竞争格局中，可以应用延迟的情况正在迅速增加。面对当前广泛的海关关税和自由贸易协定，公司需要（重新）设计其延期策略，以在每个市场上适当且适当地定制其产品。由于实际的运营地点对公司的整体绩效有重大影响，因此在设计全球延期策略时，还必须考虑空间因素和传统的时间因素。迄今为止，学术文献没有提供任何全球性的全面框架来处理所谓的延期边界问题或概念化相关的延期策略。在先前研究的基础上，本研究的目的是在全球环境中以下游为重点研究推迟概念。预期的目的是双重的：首先，回顾和扩展先前对该主题的研究；其次，为概念化全球延迟策略提供一些指导。首先进行了结构化的文献综述，然后开发了将时间和空间维度相结合的框架。最后，该框架已应用于从文献中摘录的28个业务案例中，