Prioritising indicators in improving supply chain performance using fuzzy AHP: insights from the case example of four Indian manufacturing companies

Production Planning and Control

Volumn 28, Issue 6-8, 2017, Pages 552-573

  Govindan, Kannan ^a   Mangla, Sachin Kumar ^b   Luthra, Sunil ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b GRAPHIC ERA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Government Engineering College   (India)

Author keywords

fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP); multi criteria decision making (MCDM); SC performance improvements indicators; sensitivity analysis; Supply chain management (SCM)

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; DECISION MAKING; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MANUFACTURE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

FUZZY ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS; FUZZY ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESSES (AHP); INFORMATION EXCHANGES; MANUFACTURING COMPANIES; MULTI-CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENTS (SCM); SUPPLY CHAIN PERFORMANCE;

INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85019488732     PISSN: 09537287     EISSN: 13665871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09537287.2017.1309716     Document Type: Article

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