Supply Chain Design: Flexibility Considerations

Handbooks in Operations Research and Management Science

Volumn 11, Issue C, 2003, Pages 133-198

  Bertrand, J W M ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 77950469189     PISSN: 09270507     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0927-0507(03)11004-3     Document Type: Review

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