The impact of component commonality on composite assembly policies

Naval Research Logistics

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 615-622

  Eynan, Amit ^a   Rosenblatt, Meir J ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Assemble in advance; Assemble to order; Assembly; Commonality; Risk pooling

Indexed keywords

INVENTORY CONTROL; PROFITABILITY; RISK ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING;

ASSEMBLE IN ADVANCE (AIA) POLICY; ASSEMBLE TO ORDER (ATO) POLICY; MULTIPRODUCT ENVIRONMENT; RISK-POOLING;

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34548573576     PISSN: 0894069X     EISSN: 15206750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nav.20233     Document Type: Article

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