Managing uncertainty in a supply chain reengineering project towards agility

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 282-305

  Wong, Chee Yew ^a   Arlbjørn, Jan Stentoft ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Case studies; Reengineering; Supply chain planning; Toy industry; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859473777     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2008.021214     Document Type: Article

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