Linking product variety to order-fulfillment strategies

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Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 394-403

  Pil, Frits K ^a   Holweg, Matthias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Inventory: production, policies, ordering; Manufacturing: strategy

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EID: 8644278723     PISSN: 00922102     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/inte.1040.0092     Document Type: Review

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