An analytic model for selection of and allocation among third party logistics service providers

International Journal of Enterprise Network Management

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 268-288

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

^a NOORUL ISLAM UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b ANNAMALAI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c IBM INDIA RESEARCH LAB   (India)

Author keywords

3PLSP; Allocation of workloads; Fuzzy AHP; MCDM; Multi criteria decision making; Third party logistics service provider; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950579856     PISSN: 17481252     EISSN: 17481260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJENM.2009.032398     Document Type: Article

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