Review and Prospect of Leagile Supply Chain

This paper comprehensively demonstrates the development road map of the supply chain strategy,which is from leanness to agility to leagility.In order to decrease the operation and management complexity greatly,this paper presents a concept of sub-supply chain.Then how the lean and agile sub-supply chains are combined serially or parallel to form an effective leagile supply chain and the advantage derived are analyzed.Finally,the future research directions are pointed out.