Managing product variety in automobile assembly: The importance of the sequencing point

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Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 324-333

  Swaminathan, Jayashankar M ^a   Nitsch, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b MCKINSEY AND COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Manufacturing strategy; Production sequencing

Indexed keywords

EID: 38849199302     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: 1526551X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1060.0278     Document Type: Article

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