Modelling customer and technical requirements for sustainable supply chain planning

International Journal of Production Research

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 2014, Pages 5131-5154

  Zhang, Zhonghua ^a   Awasthi, Anjali ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

gap analysis; priority matrix; quality function deployment; sustainability function deployment; sustainable supply chains; voice of the customer

Indexed keywords

QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; SALES; SUPPLY CHAINS;

CUSTOMER REQUIREMENTS; DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT; GAP ANALYSIS; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENTS (QFD); STRUCTURED APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE SUPPLY CHAINS; TECHNICAL REQUIREMENT; VOICE OF THE CUSTOMER;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 84905858785     PISSN: 00207543     EISSN: 1366588X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00207543.2014.899717     Document Type: Article

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