Achieving competitiveness through supply chain integration

International Journal of Integrated Supply Management

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 4-24

  Arlbjørn, Jan Stentoft ^a   Wong, Chee Yew ^b   Seerup, Søren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c Gumlink A/S   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Best practice; Chewing gum industry; Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)Business Process Reengineering (BPR); Supply chain integration; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846109249     PISSN: 14775360     EISSN: 17418097     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJISM.2007.011447     Document Type: Article

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