flexibility and adaptation to market changes;
• building integrated business processes to unify customer relationships, forecasting,
planning, replenishment, distribution, and manufacturing;
• systematic information coordination; and
• supply chain event management.
To narrow the literature analysis to the objectives of this research, we will concentrate
on the problems of (1) modularization/postponement and agility, (2) virtualization
and agility, and (3) coordination and agility.