An intelligent supplier management tool for benchmarking suppliers in outsource manufacturing

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 213-224

  Choy, K L ^a   Lee, W B ^a   Lo, Victor ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b Honeywell Consumer Products Limited   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Case based reasoning; Neural network; Outsource manufacturing; Supplier selection; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; DATA REDUCTION; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; NEURAL NETWORKS; OUTSOURCING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT;

INTELLIGENT SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT TOOL (ISMT); SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

INTELLIGENT AGENTS;

EID: 0036533306     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0957-4174(01)00055-0     Document Type: Article

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