The analytic network process is one of the multi-criteria decision-making methods widely
used to solve various issues in the real-world due to the consideration of complex and …

Multicriteria decision-making (MCDM) refers to making decisions in the presence of multiple
and usually conflicting criteria. Fuzzy decision-making is used where vague and incomplete …

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a very important role in national
production, and provide more than 60% of the employment opportunities for the society. The …

Despite the importance of decision-making (DM) techniques for construction of effective
decision models for supplier selection, there is a lack of a systematic literature review for it …

Within supply chains activities, selecting appropriate suppliers based on the sustainability
criteria (economic, environmental and social) can help companies move toward sustainable …

Recently, resolving the problem of evaluation and ranking the potential suppliers has
become as a key strategic factor for business firms. With the development of intelligent and …

Both academic and corporate interest in sustainable supply chains has increased in recent
years. Supplier selection process is one of the key operational tasks for sustainable supply …

A fuzzy multi-criteria group decision making approach that makes use of quality function
deployment (QFD), fusion of fuzzy information and 2-tuple linguistic representation model is …

Sustainable supply chain management has received much attention from both academia
and industry due to various issues such as economic stability, environment conservation …

Supply chain environment is more dynamic and unpredictable than the past; therefore, it
needs to be highly flexible in order to reconfigure in response to changes in their …