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      <journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">REA Press</journal-id>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Null</journal-id>
      <journal-title>REA Press</journal-title><issn pub-type="ppub">3009-3732 </issn><issn pub-type="epub">3009-3732 </issn><publisher>
      	<publisher-name>REA Press</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">https://doi.org/10.31181/sa21202412</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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        <subj-group><subject>Bayesian networks, Cross-border third party logistics provider, House of quality , Quality function ‎deployment , Ranked nodes , Voice of customer‎.</subject></subj-group>
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        <article-title>QFD Application In Cross-border E-commerce Third Party Logistics Provider Selection</article-title><subtitle>QFD Application In Cross-border E-commerce Third Party Logistics Provider Selection</subtitle></title-group>
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	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Lukale</surname>
		<given-names>Nelson Owate</given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Business School, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.</aff>
	</contrib><contrib contrib-type="author">
	<name name-style="western">
	<surname>Hairui</surname>
		<given-names>Wei </given-names>
	</name>
	<aff>Business School, University of Shanghai for Science & Technology, Shanghai 200093, China.</aff>
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      <pub-date pub-type="ppub">
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <pub-date pub-type="epub">
        <day>26</day>
        <month>06</month>
        <year>2024</year>
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      <volume>2</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
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        <copyright-statement>© 2024 REA Press</copyright-statement>
        <copyright-year>2024</copyright-year>
        <license license-type="open-access" xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"><p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p></license>
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			<article-title>QFD Application In Cross-border E-commerce Third Party Logistics Provider Selection</article-title>
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			The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the potential use of quality function deployment (QFD) in the selection of cross-border Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider. Our approach involves extending conventional QFD with Bayesian Networks (BN) with ranked nodes and a multi-criteria decision analysis method such as Technique for Order of Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution (TOPSIS). This way, cross-border 3PL provider selection process will incorporate voice of overseas customers and expert knowledge. Cooperating with Lovely Wholesale, a cross-border e-commerce wholesaler of women's clothing; we record the voice of customer (VOC) through a survey, develop decision criteria and compute their relative importance weights and build a correlation matrix using the House of Quality (HOQ).  A causal nexus graph is formed based on the correlation analysis. We use a parameterization of BN called Ranked Nodes, which lets experts contribute their expertise in the form of natural language phrases. BN produces the decision matrix while the relative importance weights are used as weights of criteria in ranking with TOPSIS. A successful ranked list of alternatives confirms that the methodology developed in this work may aid in selecting the most appropriate cross-border 3PL provider considering the voice of customer.
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