A study on X party material flow: The theory and applications

Enterprise Information Systems

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 287-299

  Hou, H ^a   Xu, S ^a,b   Wang, H ^c  

^a BEIJING JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b RESEARCH CENTER OF LASER FUSION   (China)

^c NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Enterprise Integration; Inter enterprise collaboration; Logistics; Material flow; OIR order parameters; PMF fractal unit; Supply chain management (SCM); Synergetic control; X party logistics; X party material flow (XPMF)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84987655549     PISSN: 17517575     EISSN: 17517583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17517570701546741     Document Type: Article

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