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Operationalising form postponement from a decision-making perspective

Alessio Trentin Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei sistemi industriali, Università di Padova, Stradella S. Nicola 3, 36100 Vicenza, Italy; Zaragoza Logistics Center, Edificio Nayade 5, C/Bari 55 – Plaza, 50197, Zaragoza, SpainCorrespondence[email protected]
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Fabrizio Salvador Department of Operations and Technology Management, Instituto de Empresa Business School, Calle Pinar 15-3, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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Cipriano Forza Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione dei sistemi industriali, Università di Padova, Stradella S. Nicola 3, 36100 Vicenza, Italy
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M. Johnny Rungtusanatham Operations & Management Science Department, Curtis L. Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota – Twin Cities, 321 Nineteenth Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455-9940, USA
Pages 1977-1999 | Received 03 Jun 2009, Accepted 22 Jan 2010, Published online: 26 Apr 2010

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Wenhui Zhou, Weixiang Huang & Renqian Zhang. (2014) A two-stage queueing network on form postponement supply chain with correlated demands. Applied Mathematical Modelling 38:11-12, pages 2734-2743.
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