Quality in operational supply chain networks: An aerospace case study

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 426-442

  Alzaman, Chaher ^a   Bulgak, A A ^a   Ramudhin, Amar ^b  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aerospace; Mathematical programming; Operations research; Simulated annealing; Supply chain

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049500388     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2010.036290     Document Type: Article

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