“…In many cases supplier selection decision modeling has transcended the traditional boundaries of deciding which supplier(s) to select. For example, the supplier selection decision has been integrated with benchmarking and improvement (Azadi et al, 2013), production planning and transportation decision making (Choudhary and Shankar, 2014), product development considerations (Deng et al, 2014), purchase/procurement quantities (Zhang and Chen, 2013), supplier failure (Ruiz-Torres et al, 2013), and sustainability/environment issues (Genovese et al, 2013;Kumar et al, 2014).…”