Evaluation of third-party logistics (3PL) providers by using a two-phase AHP and TOPSIS methodology

Benchmarking

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 588-604

  Perçin, Selçuk ^a  

^a KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Decision making; Distribution management

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350734537     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/14635770910987823     Document Type: Article

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