Improvement of organizational efficiency and effectiveness by developing a manufacturing strategy decision support system

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 588-607

  Jalham, Issam S ^a   Abdelkader, Wafa T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JORDAN   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; House of quality; Manufacturing systems; Modelling; Quality function deployment; Strategic planning

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748710222     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14637150610691019     Document Type: Article

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