Defining and assessing requisite supply chain visibility in regulated industries

Journal of Enterprise Information Management

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 295-315

  Klueber, Roland ^a   O'Keefe, Robert M ^b  

^a Consilis GmbH ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aviation; Information management; Information technology; Regulation; Supply chain compliance; Supply chain management; Supply chain visibility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877825051     PISSN: 17410398     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17410391311325243     Document Type: Article

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