Modeling hidden costs of inventory systems: A thermodynamic approach

Inventory Management: Non-Classical Views

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 199-218

  Jaber, Mohamad Y ^a  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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