A systems approach to order fulfilment using design for six sigma methodology

International Journal of Business and Systems Research

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 302-316

  Amer, Yousef ^a   Ashraf, Muhammad Azeem ^a   Luong, Lee ^a   Lee, Sang Heon ^a   Wang, William Y C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design for six sigma; DFSS; Order fulfilment; QFD; Quality function deployment; SCM; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901048506     PISSN: 1751200X     EISSN: 17512018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.015831     Document Type: Article

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