Selection of third-party reverse logistics providers for End-of-Life computers using TOPSIS-AHP based approach

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 24-37

  Ravi, V ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

AHP; Analytical hierarchical process; Computer hardware industry; Reverse logistics; Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution; TOPSIS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857268402     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2012.044048     Document Type: Article

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