Strategic supply chain structure design for a proprietary component manufacturer

Production and Operations Management

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 371-389

  Xu, Yi ^a   Gurnani, Haresh ^b   Desiraju, Ramarao ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Component supplier; Dual distribution; Marketing operations interface; Proprietary component manufacturer; Supply chain design

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955463656     PISSN: 10591478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1937-5956.2009.01116.x     Document Type: Article

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