Implementing inventory transparency to temporary storage locations: A solution design experiment in project business

International Journal of Managing Projects in Business

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 292-306

  Kärkkäinen, Mikko ^a   Ala Risku, Timo ^a   Främling, Kary ^a   Collin, Jari ^b   Holmström, Jan ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b Elisa Corporation   (Finland)

Author keywords

Inventory control; Project management; Supply chain management; Tracking

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649470931     PISSN: 17538378     EISSN: 17538386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17538371011036590     Document Type: Article

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