Designing for manufacturing flexibility: a newsvendor approach

International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 201-220

  Abdel Malek, Layek L ^a   Areeratchakul, Nathapol ^a   Otegbeye, Mojisola K ^a  

^a NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

manufacturing flexibility; newsvendor; optimal flexibility levels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860716685     PISSN: 17485037     EISSN: 17485045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/ijise.2006.009057     Document Type: Article

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