Cost-to-serve measurement and customer profitability analysis

The International Journal of Logistics Management

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 389-407

  Guerreiro, Reinaldo ^a   Rodrigues Bio, Sérgio ^a   Vazquez Villamor Merschmann, Elvira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Activity based costs; Brazil; Food industry; Profit

Indexed keywords

EID: 84986135419     PISSN: 09574093     EISSN: 17586550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09574090810919215     Document Type: Article

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