Strategic logistics outsourcing: An integrated QFD and fuzzy AHP approach

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 10841-10850

  Ho, William ^a   He, Ting ^b   Lee, Carman Ka Man ^c   Emrouznejad, Ali ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Analytic hierarchy process; Fuzzy; Logistics outsourcing; Quality function deployment; Selection; Third party logistics service providers

Indexed keywords

EVALUATING CRITERIA; FUZZY; FUZZY AHP; HONG-KONG; HOUSE OF QUALITY; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LOGISTICS OUTSOURCING; LOGISTICS SERVICE PROVIDER; OPTIMAL SELECTION; OUTSOURCING STRATEGY; SELECTION; STRATEGIC LOGISTICS;

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; FUZZY SET THEORY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; INDUSTRY; INTEGRATED CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

OUTSOURCING;

EID: 84862828908     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.009     Document Type: Article

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