Global supplier selection considering sustainability and carbon footprint issue: AHP multi-objective fuzzy linear programming approach

International Journal of Operational Research

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 215-247

  Shaw, Krishnendu ^a   Shankar, Ravi ^a   Yadav, Surendra S ^a   Thakur, Lakshman S ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Ahp; Analytic Hierarchy Process; Carbon Footprint; Emission; Environmental Pollution; Fuzzy Linear Programming; Global Operation; Global Supplier Selection; Moflp; Outsourcing; Quota Allocation; Sensitivity Analysis; Supply Chain Management; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877294086     PISSN: 17457645     EISSN: 17457653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJOR.2013.053624     Document Type: Article

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