Note - Commonality Strategies: Value Drivers and Equivalence with Flexible Capacity and Inventory Substitution

Management Science

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 419-424

  Van Mieghem, Jan A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assemble to order; Component commonality; Dual sourcing; Flexibility; Risk pooling; Substitution

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ECONOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ASSEMBLE TO ORDER; COMPONENT COMMONALITY; DUAL SOURCING; FLEXIBILITY; RISK POOLING; SUBSTITUTION;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 1842631843     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1030.0197     Document Type: Article

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