Evaluation of a 3PL company: An approach of fuzzy modelling

International Journal of Advanced Operations Management

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 131-161

  Bansal, Ankit ^a   Kumar, Pravin ^b   Issar, Siddhant ^a  

^a DELHI TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic; Multiple criteria decision making; Performance measurement; Team approach

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908256469     PISSN: 1758938X     EISSN: 17589398     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJAOM.2014.061432     Document Type: Article

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