Managing broader product lines through delayed differentiation using vanilla boxes

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 12 PART 2, 1998, Pages

  Swaminathan, Jayashankar M ^a   Tayur, Sridhar R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Component Commonality; Demand Correlation; Inventory Management; Product Variety; Stochastic Integer Programs; Stochastic Multi Product Assembly Systems

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INVENTORY CONTROL; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; RANDOM PROCESSES; VALUE ENGINEERING;

COMPONENT COMMONALITY; DEMAND CORRELATIONS; STOCHASTIC MULTI-PRODUCT ASSEMBLY SYSTEMS;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 0032292446     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.12.s161     Document Type: Article

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