Evaluating alternatives in reverse logistics for automobile organisations

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-51

  Ravi, V ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^b  

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

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Analytic network process; ANP; Multi criteria decision making; Resource reduction; Reverse logistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84861854614     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2012.047057     Document Type: Article

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