How to unlock the benefits of MRP (materiel requirements planning) II and Just-in-Time

M A Jacobi1

  • 1David W. Buker, Inc. & Associates, Antioch, IL.

Hospital Materiel Management Quarterly
|April 8, 1994
PubMed

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