Research On The Application Of Postponement Strategy In Glasses Manufacturers

As the markets become more turbulent and the customized demand is increasing, how to lower the risk and provid customized products is stringent for companies to live and develop. The traditonal mass code of production faces great challenger of the the markets. Mass customization can provide customized products with maintaining mass efficiency, as a result it has been used by many companies, and the application of postponement is known as an available way to achieve it .Researchers do much theoretical work on postponement, however, people still know little about the application of postponement in companies, which hampers the application of mass customization. In recent years, some foreign and Taiwanese researchers have began the research on the application of postponement, but it is still blank in the mainland of china, this article fills the gap by researching the application of postponement in glasses manufacturers.Firstly, combining with the Customer Order Decoupling Point (CODP) siting method ,this article analyses the working procedure and sets up the working procedure models which were used with postponement in glasses manufacturers, and reseachs the applicaion level in different kinds of companies in glasses-manufacturing indurstry and present the working procedure of combining lens-manufacturing. Secondly, with a survey, we investigated half of all glasses manufacturers in Dan Yang area of Jiangsu province, handed out 80 surveys and took back 51 useful surveys. Finaly , using the statistics software SPSS ,this article analyses the date presented in the survey and analyses the correlation between the application level of postponement and related facators, tries to find some factors which affect the application of postponement ,and provides referece for glasses manufacturers to performance mass customization.