Each order fulfilment strategy serves customer orders in a particular manner, which implies a specific stage in the manufacturing value chain where a particular product is linked to a specific customer order (Brun and Zorzini, 2009), that is, the point in the system where the "push" (or forecast-driven) and "pull" (or demand-driven) elements of the supply chain meet. The location of this point is called Decoupling Point (DP). The following describes the main features of each of the strategies considered in this study, based on the combination of strategies (MTS and BTO).