Kourosh Simaei - Supply Chain Design and Management Master student, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fariborz Jolai - Associated Professor, Department of Industrial engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Lean and agile are not maturely exclusive approaches and their application should be heuristic. Their marriage might provide competitive advantages. In order to develop the market, application of these approaches simultaneously should consider supply chain flexibility dimensions. Those which have more impact on market share expansion. Flexibility is a key feature of an agile network in uncertainty. In this paper supply chain flexibility extents are introduced. The impact of most important SC flexibility components on firm’s performances is explored.

Flexibility – Agility - Supply chain management