A fuzzy QFD approach to achieve agility

International Journal of Production Economics

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 380-391

  Bottani, Eleonora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Agility; Fuzzy logic; House of quality; Quality function deployment; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

AGILITY; BUSINESS ENVIRONMENTS; FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS; FUZZY QFD; HOUSE OF QUALITY; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; INTEGRATED METHODOLOGY; LITTLE RESEARCH; MATRIX; NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; NUMERICAL VALUES;

COMPETITION; FUZZY LOGIC; FUZZY SETS; HOUSES; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 67349231955     PISSN: 09255273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpe.2009.02.013     Document Type: Article

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