Plan for supply chain agility at Nokia: Lessons from the mobile infrastructure industry

International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 418-430

  Collin, Jari ^a   Lorenzin, Dennis ^a  

^a NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agile production; Demand forecasting; Project management; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746185712     PISSN: 09600035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09600030610677375     Document Type: Article

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