The Implications of Product Variety for Supply Network Design

Intelligent Non-hierarchical Manufacturing Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-40

  Lyons, Andrew ^a   Everington, Lucy ^a   Hernandez, Jorge ^a   Li, Dong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL MANAGEMENT SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Key performance indicators (KPIs); Operations; Product customization; Resilient multiplant network (REMPLANET) integrated framework; Strategy; Supply network

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886349018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118607077.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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