“…Whilst the Delphi technique is used at the preliminary stage of their research in order to shortlist and identify the more prominent variables, the AHP has been used as the subsequent stage to determine the weightage of the selected variables and develop the decision making model required (Da Cruz et al, 2013;Chung & Her, 2013;Lee, Wan, Shi, & Li, 2014;Moradi, Etebarian, Shirvani, & Soltani, 2014;Sayareh & Alizmini, 2014). The combination of the two techniques could be traced in many research areas such as project management (Lee & Kim, 2001;Vidal, Marle, & Bocquet, 2011), logistics (Cheng, Chen, & Chuang, 2008), supply chain management ), strategic planning (Gerdsri & Kocaoglu, 2007), forecasting (Mishra, Deshmukh, & Vrat, 2002), product development (Yang, Liu, Kao, & Wang, 2010;Cho & Lee, 2013), supplier selection (Cheng, Lee, & Tang, 2009;Liao, 2010), human resource management (Tavana, Kennedy, & Joglekar, 1996), safety (Moradi et al, 2014;Chung & Her, 2013) and transportation (Lee et al, 2014).…”