Lately there are a lot of discussions going on among supply chain professionals about the adequacy and effectiveness of postponement strategies. They generally aim at delaying certain tasks of the supply chain in order to gain flexibility in reacting to demand uncertainty. A very typical example is form postponement, whereby certain production, assembly or packaging activities are delayed until a customer order is received. This is also associated with make-to-order, assemble-to-order, package-to-order etc. The aim is to gain more flexibility in responding to specific customer needs, while keeping inventories low, due to the fact that only the base products/inputs need to be stocked instead of all differentiated finished products. Especially in the present economic situation, postponement strategies seem to gain major attention, due to the importance of any capital that is not tight up in inventory.