Manufacturing agility and supply chain management practices

Production and Inventory Management Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 4-10

  Narasimhan, Ram ^a   Das, Ajay ^b  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGILE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; FLEXIBLE MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SUPERVISORY PERSONNEL;

AGILITY-BASED PERFORMANCE GOALS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 0033100598     PISSN: 08978336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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