A MOORA based fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach for supply chain strategy selection

International Journal of Industrial Engineering Computations

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 649-662

  Dey, Balaram ^a   Bairagi, Bipradas ^a   Sarkar, Bijan ^b   Sanyal, Subir ^b  

^a HALDIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy multi criteria decision; Making; MOORA; Supply chain; Vendor selection; Warehouse location selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871270603     PISSN: 19232926     EISSN: 19232934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5267/j.ijiec.2012.03.001     Document Type: Article

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