Extending visual basic for applications to MRP: Low-budget spreadsheet alternatives in aircraft maintenance

Production and Inventory Management Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 9-19

  Friend, Chris H ^a   Ghobbar, Adel A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0002818370     PISSN: 08978336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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