Enhancing supply chain solutions with the application of chaos theory

Supply Chain Management

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 108-114

  Stapleton, Drew ^a   Hanna, Joe B ^b   Ross, Jonathan R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN LA CROSSE   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Trane Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos theory; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645237082     PISSN: 13598546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/13598540610652483     Document Type: Article

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