The increasing demand for speedy delivery of quality products at lower production cost have resulted to new trend in manufacturing to review the gap between input resources inventory and production output inventory. More so, creating competitive niche in the current market environment is now...

The mirroring hypothesis predicts that the organizational patterns of a development project (e.g. communication links, geographic collocation, team and firm co-membership) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Scholars in a range of disciplines...

Accomplishment of customer orders from the viewpoints of required lead time and quality is important factor in successful operation of a multinational company. Logistics plays key role in meeting customer requirements and also it has great influence on operation costs. Rationalization efforts...

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