“…In SSCM, the decisions on sourcing, product design, and manufacturing processes are taken to maximize profitability while minimizing the environmental side effects and maximizing social wellbeing (Hassini et al, 2012). The importance of SSCM and supplier selection as one of its major components have grown over the years (Azadi et al, 2015) and there are many instances of SSCM application in industry in the literature: packaging (Azadnia et al, 2015), white goods (Büyüközkan & Çifçi, 2012), agricultural equipment (Dou et al, 2014), retail (Erol et al, 2011), textile , automotive (Gupta et al, 2016;Hashemi et al, 2015;Kannan et al, 2013;Olugu & Wong, 2012), plastics (Azadi et al, 2015;Kannan et al, 2015), electronics (Kuo et al, 2010;Lin & Tseng, 2016;Tseng & Chiu, 2013), and gas (Mehregan et al, 2014;Asadi & Sadjadi, 2017).…”