Using cyclic planning to manage capacity at ALCOA

Interfaces

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 16-27

  Schmidt, Edie ^a   Dada, Maqbool ^b   Ward, James ^c   Adams, Duane ^c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Engineering Products Division   (United States)

Author keywords

Industries; Mining Metals inventory Production; Policies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039253629     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.31.3.16.9628     Document Type: Article

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