An improvement to multiple criteria ABC inventory classification using Shannon entropy

Journal of Systems Science and Complexity

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 857-865

  Zheng, Shanshan ^a   Fu, Yelin ^b   Lai, Kin Keung ^c,d   Liang, Liang ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^d SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HEFEI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Inventory; multiple criteria analysis; Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; SYSTEMS SCIENCE;

ABC INVENTORY CLASSIFICATION; COMMON WEIGHTS; INVENTORY; MULTIPLE CRITERIA; MULTIPLE CRITERIA ANALYSIS; NG MODEL; SCORING SCHEMES; SHANNON ENTROPY;

INVENTORY CONTROL;

EID: 85021334648     PISSN: 10096124     EISSN: 15597067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11424-017-5061-8     Document Type: Article

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