Improving road transport operations through lean thinking: a case study

International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 163-180

  Villarreal, Bernardo ^a   Garza Reyes, Jose Arturo ^b   Kumar, Vikas ^c   Lim, Ming K ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE MONTERREY   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DERBY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Lean; road transportation; transportation efficiency; value stream mapping; waste elimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963820942     PISSN: 13675567     EISSN: 1469848X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13675567.2016.1170773     Document Type: Article

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