Order Release Quantities

What it measures

Order release quantities reflects customers' perceptions of a logistics service provider's flexibility and willingness to fulfil the quantities they request without imposing restrictive constraints. The construct captures the degree to which customers can obtain their desired order volumes without encountering challenges to requisition quantities or experiencing difficulties related to minimum or maximum release thresholds. Product availability has long been recognised as a foundational component of logistics excellence.

Response format

5-point Likert-like scale (1 = strongly disagree, 5 = strongly agree)

Scale items

• Requisition quantities are not challenged.
• Difficulties never occur due to maximum release quantities.
• Difficulties never occur due to minimum release quantities.

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Usage notes & scoring

CR = .82–.85 across four customer segments; AVE = 62%–65%. Items reference 'DLA' (Defense Logistics Agency) and require wording adaptation for other logistics service provider contexts, as noted by the authors. Validated via multisample CFA demonstrating measurement invariance across four DLA customer segments: general merchandise (n = 1,765), textiles and clothing (n = 446), electronics (n = 530), and construction supplies (n = 215). All psychometric values are composite reliability (CR) and average variance extracted (AVE) — Cronbach's α not reported.

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Citation

Mentzer, J. T., Flint, D. J., & Hult, G. T. M. (2001). Logistics service quality as a segment-customized process. Journal of Marketing, 65(4), 82–104.

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