Appraisement and selection of third party logistics service providers in fuzzy environment

Benchmarking

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 537-548

  Datta, Saurav ^a   Samantra, Chitrasen ^a   Mahapatra, Siba Sankar ^a   Mandal, Goutam ^b   Majumdar, Gautam ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Automotive industry; Decision making; India; Multi criteria decision making; Operations and production management; Supply chain management; Third party logistics provider

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879285731     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-11-2011-0087     Document Type: Article

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