A comparative study on multicriteria abc analysis in inventory management

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3280-3285

  Chen, Ye ^a   Li, Kevin W ^b   Liu, Si Feng ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Inventory management; Multicriteria ABC analysis

Indexed keywords

ABC ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INVENTORY MANAGEMENT; INVENTORY SYSTEMS; MULTI-CRITERIA; MULTICRITERIA ABC ANALYSIS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; RECENT TRENDS; STOCK KEEPING UNIT;

CONTROL THEORY; CYBERNETICS;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 69949121757     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2008.4811802     Document Type: Conference Paper

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