This paper is concerned with the make-or-buy decision model for manufacturing and procurement problems. We developed a web-based two-step approach as follows: (1) for the first step, we used the multi-attribute analysis method using the AHP (analytic hierarchy process); and (2) for the second step w
Make-or-buy decisions and their implications
β Scribed by David Ford; Barry Cotton; David Farmer; Andrew Gross; Ian Wilkinson
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1993
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 823 KB
- Volume
- 22
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-8501
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