An analysis of purchasing costs as the number of products' components is reduced

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 388-397

  Eynan, Amit ^a   Rosenblatt, Meir J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Component commonality; Product design; Standardization

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001100421     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1997.tb00482.x     Document Type: Article

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