Evaluating suppliers to include green supplier development programs via fuzzy c-means and VIKOR methods

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 86, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-82

  Akman, Gülşen ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fuzzy c means clustering; Green supplier development; Green supplier evaluation; Green supplier segmentation; Green supply chain; VIKOR

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FUZZY SYSTEMS; SUPPLY CHAINS;

C-MEANS CLUSTERING METHOD; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL SUPPLY CHAINS; FUZZY C MEANS CLUSTERING; GREEN SUPPLIER; GREEN SUPPLY CHAIN; PERFORMANCE CRITERION; VIKOR;

C (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 84938735135     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2014.10.013     Document Type: Article

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