Vendor selection and uncertainty

International Journal of Business Performance and Supply Chain Modelling

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 333-345

  Verma, Rakesh ^a   Koul, Saroj ^b   Govindan, Kannan ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING NITIE   (India)

^b O P JINDAL GLOBAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fuzzy TOPSIS; MADM; Multi attribute decision making; TFN; Triangular fuzzy numbers; Vendor selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84982947492     PISSN: 17589401     EISSN: 1758941X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJBPSCM.2009.033749     Document Type: Article

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