Economic manufacture/order quantity (EMQ/EOQ) and the learning curve: Past, present, and future

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-102

  Jaber, Mohamad Y ^a   Bonney, Maurice ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL; PURCHASING; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VALUE ENGINEERING;

ECONOMIC MANUFACTURE QUANTITY (EMQ); ECONOMIC ORDER QUANTITY (EOQ);

JUST IN TIME PRODUCTION;

EID: 0032649356     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(98)00027-9     Document Type: Article

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