Cost management through product design: Target costing approach

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 48, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 5593-5611

  Zengin, Yasemin ^a   Ada, Erhan ^a  

^a IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Turkey)

Author keywords

continuous improvement; cost management; product design; quality function deployment; target costing; value engineering

Indexed keywords

COMPETITIVE COSTS; CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTS; COST MANAGEMENT; CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PRODUCT COST; PRODUCTION PROCESS; QUALITY SPECIFICATIONS; SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISE; TARGET COSTING; TOTAL EFFECT;

COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; INDUSTRY; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; TARGETS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; VALUE ENGINEERING;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 77955568803     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207540903130876     Document Type: Article

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