Logistics Service Provider Selection through an Integrated Fuzzy Multicriteria Decision Making Approach

Table 1

Summary of methods for 3PL providers selection.

Techniques	References
Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and fuzzy AHP	Zhang et al., [53]; Göl and Çatay [54]; Zhang and Feng [42]; Çakır et al., [8]; Soh [33]
Analytic network process (ANP)	Meade and Sarkis [30]; Jharkharia and Shankar [6]
Analysis of variance (ANOVA)	Yeung et al., [35]
Technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS)	Bottani and Rizzi [36],
Case-based reasoning (CBR)	Yan et al., [1]
Data envelopment analysis (DEA)	Haas et al., [55], Min and Joo [37]; Hamdan and Rogers [47]; Saen [56]
İntegrating interpretive structural model (ISM) and ANP	Thakkar et al., [34]
Integrated methods
(i) Case-based reasoning (CBR), rule-based reasoning (RBR), and compromise programming techniques in fuzzy environment	Işıklar et al., [38]
(ii) Fuzzy Delphi and fuzzy TOPSIS	Gupta and Bhardwaj [57]
(iii) ANP and TOPSIS	Murray [27]
(iv) Analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA)	Zhang [40]
(v) Fuzzy Delphi method, fuzzy inference method, and a fuzzy linear assignment approach	Liu and Wang [41],
(vi) Interpretive structural modeling (ISM) and fuzzy technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS)	Kannan et al., [43]
(vii) Delphi method and analytical network process (ANP),	Chen and Wu [20]
(viii) Borda function theory and gray rational analysis	Cao et al., [44]
(ix) AHP and goal programming	Sheng et al., [45]
(x) Vector machine (SVM) and fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP)	Liu et al., [51]
(xi) AHP, TOPSIS fuzzy	Kumar [49], Kabir [52] Ravi [58], Perçin [59]