Inventory visibility assessment for pharmaceutical supply chains

5th IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology, ICMIT2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 151-156

  Zhang, Allan N ^a   Goh, Mark ^b,c,d   Meng, Fanwen ^b  

^a SINGAPORE INSTITUTE OF MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inventory Visibility; Pharmaceutical supply chain; Supply chain management; Visibility Entropy

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; ENTROPY THEORY; INVENTORY VISIBILITY; PHARMACEUTICAL SUPPLY CHAIN; QUANTITATIVE METHOD; RESEARCH ISSUES; SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL MODELS; VISIBILITY ASSESSMENT;

COMPETITION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ENTROPY; INNOVATION; SUPPLY CHAINS; VISIBILITY;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77954914497     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICMIT.2010.5492831     Document Type: Conference Paper

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