Supply chain designs are constrained by the cost-service trade-off. Cost minimization typically leads to physically efficient or lean supply chains at the expense of customer responsiveness or agility. Recently, the concept of leagility has been introduced. Research on leagility, defined as the capability of concurrently deploying the lean and agile paradigms, hinges heavily on the identificati...

The paper presents the concept of ‘leagility’. Building on lean and agile literature, the paper describes the similarities and differences between these concepts and the application of each paradigm within the context of the total supply chain. Particular attention is paid to the notion of the ‘decoupling point’, which determines the location within the supply chain at which a product is custom...

The paper explores the meaning of flexibility in the context of lean, agile and leagile supply networks and articulates a supply network flexibility framework. Two key ‘sources’ of flexibility are investigated: Vendor Flexibility and Sourcing Flexibility. The paper introduces an extension of the ‘leagility’ concept beyond the simple material flow decoupling point concept. Two new types of Leagi...

nowadays, many organizations deal with increasing competition and environmental uncertainty, which caused by innovations in technologies and customer needs change. in term of this condition and environment, old and traditional methods in supply chain has lost their efficiency. on efficient method in this regard is leagility. thus, to model the leagility of supply chain , numbers of research was...

In today’s volatile and uncertain humanitarian environment, adopting a purely lean or agile supply chain is not effective. Humanitarian organizations are struggling to obtain the highest possible performance from their chains by utilizing various designs. This upon realization that despite huge chunks of money pumped into sector, stringent oversight donors expectations vulnerable populations, s...