PMID- 23365520
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20130712
LR  - 20211021
IS  - 1537-744X (Electronic)
IS  - 2356-6140 (Print)
IS  - 1537-744X (Linking)
VI  - 2012
DP  - 2012
TI  - An integrated fuzzy approach for strategic alliance partner selection in 
      third-party logistics.
PG  - 486306
LID - 10.1100/2012/486306 [doi]
LID - 486306
AB  - Outsourcing some of the logistic activities is a useful strategy for companies in 
      recent years. This makes it possible for firms to concentrate on their main 
      issues and processes and presents facility to improve logistics performance, to 
      reduce costs, and to improve quality. Therefore provider selection and evaluation 
      in third-party logistics become important activities for companies. Making a 
      strategic decision like this is significantly hard and crucial. In this study we 
      proposed a fuzzy multicriteria decision making (MCDM) approach to effectively 
      select the most appropriate provider. First we identify the provider selection 
      criteria and build the hierarchical structure of decision model. After building 
      the hierarchical structure we determined the selection criteria weights by using 
      fuzzy analytical hierarchy process (AHP) technique. Then we applied fuzzy 
      technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS) to obtain 
      final rankings for providers. And finally an illustrative example is also given 
      to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed model.
FAU - Erkayman, Burak
AU  - Erkayman B
AD  - Department of Industrial Engineering, Sakarya University, 54187 Adapazari, 
      Sakarya, Turkey. erkayman@atauni.edu.tr
FAU - Gundogar, Emin
AU  - Gundogar E
FAU - Yilmaz, Aysegul
AU  - Yilmaz A
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20121205
PL  - United States
TA  - ScientificWorldJournal
JT  - TheScientificWorldJournal
JID - 101131163
SB  - IM
MH  - *Algorithms
MH  - Choice Behavior
MH  - *Decision Making
MH  - Decision Support Techniques
MH  - *Fuzzy Logic
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Models, Theoretical
MH  - Outsourced Services/*organization & administration
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
PMC - PMC3529442
EDAT- 2013/02/01 06:00
MHDA- 2013/07/16 06:00
PMCR- 2012/12/05
CRDT- 2013/02/01 06:00
PHST- 2012/10/23 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2012/11/08 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2013/02/01 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2013/02/01 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2013/07/16 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2012/12/05 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1100/2012/486306 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - ScientificWorldJournal. 2012;2012:486306. doi: 10.1100/2012/486306. Epub 2012 Dec 
      5.