1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Baba Banda Singh Bahadur Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, University College of Engineering, Punjabi University, Patiala
The supply chain management is becoming more and more important in manufacturing industry in order to provide improved and better customer services. This need has been driven by increased pressure on manufacturers on account of customer expectations, customer's requirement in product customization, quality improvement and growing global competition. These parameters have jointly contributed to greater uncertainty and volatility of enterprise management processes. Customers are demanding more variety, better quality and service including both reliability and faster delivery. Producing good quality and delivering the right quantity of a product at right location and that is sold in the market only during a limited period of time also pose a series of challenges for manufacturing industry. To overcome the above said difficulties, firms need to develop flexibility at various levels. This paper reviews the supply chain flexibility and conceptual frameworks assessing supply chain flexibility of manufacturing.
Flexibility, Supply Chain Flexibility, Supply Chain Management, Conceptual Framework, Organization Flexibility
