Towards the development of an intelligent inventory management system

Integrated Manufacturing Systems

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 354-365

  Kobbacy, Khairy A H ^a   Liang, Yansong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Expert systems; Inventory control; Knowledge based systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642446247     PISSN: 09576061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09576069910293022     Document Type: Article

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