Nowadays manufacturing companies are facing the challenge of attending most specific customer desires and even so, to offer short delivery times and low price. Companies must have flexibility to customize products in a rapid way. A product customization strategy, named Postponement, has been adopted by a growing number of companies to address these products differentiation requirements, demanded by the new global market. This paper aims to review the available literature about the postponement strategy, comparing the several approaches from different authors, to observe how the postponement is described in terms of its benefits, implementation barriers, factors that enable or make difficult its practice, the relationship with other theories and techniques, the tools used to support the postponements planning and implementation. Through this review, it is intended to identify the contribution given by a proposed method to plan and implement the postponement strategy in an aerospace company, from the concurrent engineering perspective.Pages: 291-29
