Application of discrete event simulation to the activity based costing of manufacturing systems

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 289-301

  Spedding, T A ^a   Sun, G Q ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CIMTEK Pte Ltd   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Activity Based Costing; Discrete Event Simulation; Manufacturing systems

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COST ACCOUNTING; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PRINTED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

ACTIVITY BASED COSTING (ABC); DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE WITNESS;

PRODUCTION CONTROL;

EID: 0032737809     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0925-5273(98)00204-7     Document Type: Article

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