Establishing green supplier appraisement platform using grey concepts

Grey Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 395-418

  Sahu, Nitin Kumar ^a   Datta, Saurav ^a   Sankar Mahapatra, Siba ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Decision making; Environmental management; Grey models for decision making; Practical applications of grey models; Supplier evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878269198     PISSN: 20439377     EISSN: 20439385     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/20439371211273276     Document Type: Article

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