Agility: Competitive weapon of the 1990s and beyond?

Production and Inventory Management Journal

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 19-24

  Fliedner, Gene ^a   Vokurka, Robert J ^b  

^a OAKLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Texas A M University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; PRODUCTION CONTROL;

AGILE FIRMS; LOT SIZE; PRODUCT INNOVATIONS;

FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031224258     PISSN: 08978336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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