Leveraging the supply chain flexibility of third party logistics - Hybrid knowledge-based system approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1998-2016

  Choy, K L ^a   Chow, Harry K H ^a   Tan, K H ^b   Chan, Chi Kin ^a   Mok, Esmond C M ^a   Wang, Q ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3PL; Knowledge based system; Operations management; Supply chain flexibility; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LIGHT EMISSION; LOGISTICS; LUMINESCENCE; MANAGEMENT; MILITARY OPERATIONS; OUTSOURCING; PROCESS ENGINEERING; RESEARCH; RIVERS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

3PL; 3PL PROVIDERS; FUTURE RESEARCH; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE-BASED SYSTEM; LOGISTICS PROCESSES; OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEMS; SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIPS; SUPPLY CHAIN FLEXIBILITY; SUPPLY CHAIN PARTNERS; THIRD-PARTY LOGISTICS;

SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 48749115315     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2007.08.084     Document Type: Article

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