A decision support system for supplier selection based on a strategy-aligned fuzzy SMART approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2241-2253

  Chou, Shuo Yan ^a   Chang, Yao Hui ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b LUNGHWA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set theory; Multiple attributes decision making; Simple multiattribute rating technique; Supplier selection; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTES DECISION-MAKING; SIMPLE MULTIATTRIBUTE RATING TECHNIQUE; SUPPLIER SELECTION;

FUZZY SETS;

EID: 38649096232     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.03.001     Document Type: Article

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