Integrated component and supplier selection for a product family

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 163-182

  Gupta, Saurabh ^a   Krishnan, V ^a  

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Author keywords

Component selection; Product design and development; Product variety; Supplier selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0008539793     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.1999.tb00368.x     Document Type: Article

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