## Abstract Holding down costs has long been a corporate objective, yet companies continue to struggle to find ways to generate betterβquality informationβeither with the help of, or sometimes in spite of, the cost management tools already in place. But as a bestβpractices survey shows, cost manage
Managing the cost-service relationship through backorder control
β Scribed by Fred W. Morgan Jr.
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 208 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-8501
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