A supply-chain-oriented business process reengineering strategy for on-demand new product development

International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 298-311

  Chen, Chun Hsien ^a   Yan, Wei ^b   Chen, Kuohsiang ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b SHANGHAI MARITIME UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

BPR; Business process reengineering; General sorting; Hopfield neural network; On demand product conceptualisation; Repertory grids; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HOPFIELD NEURAL NETWORKS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

BUSINESS PROCESS RE-ENGINEERING; CELLULAR PHONE DESIGN; GENERAL SORTING; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; ON-DEMAND PRODUCT CONCEPTUALISATION; REPERTORY GRIDS; SUPPLY CHAIN FORMATION; VALUE-ADDED PROCESS;

REENGINEERING;

EID: 56749179101     PISSN: 09528091     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJCAT.2008.021385     Document Type: Article

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