Development of a composite model for selection of third party logistics service provider

International Journal of Electronic Customer Relationship Management

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 375-401

  Rajesh, R ^a   Pugazhendhi, S ^b   Muralidharan, C ^b   Ganesh, K ^c  

^a NOORUL ISLAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

Author keywords

3PL; Ahp; Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy logic; Selection process; Service provider; Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution; Third party logistics; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849105358     PISSN: 17500664     EISSN: 17500672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJECRM.2009.029297     Document Type: Article

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