Fuzzy based appraisement module for 3PL evaluation and selection

Benchmarking

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 354-392

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

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Decision support systems; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928114938     PISSN: 14635771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BIJ-01-2013-0002     Document Type: Article

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