Improving supply-chain-reconfiguration decisions at IBM

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Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 460-473

  Kirkwood, Craig W ^a   Slaven, Matthew P ^b   Maltz, Arnold ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision analysis: multiple criteria; Electronics; Industries: computer

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444454177     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1050.0166     Document Type: Article

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