Table 2.

Review of supplier selection methods

Method	Application	Uncertainty	Reference
Green DEA	automobile spare parts	-	(Kumar et al. (2014)
ANP, ELECTRE II & VIKOR	Electronic switches manufacturing company	-	Girubha et al. (2016)
TODIM	Automobile manufacturer	Type-2 fuzzy sets	Sang and Liu (2016)
Goal Programming & DEA	Steel Company	-	Shabanpour et al. (2017)
DEMATEL	Electronic manufacturing	-	Su et al. (2016)
AHP, Preference Programming & TOPSIS	Knitted fabric production company	FST	Fallahpour et al. (2017)
AHP & VIKOR	Automobile industry	-	Luthra et al. (2017)
DEMATEL	solar air-conditioner	-	Song et al. (2017)
DEMATEL	Plastic pipe fittings	Neutrosophic set	Abdel-Basset et al. (2018)
AHP & VIKOR	Electronic goods manufacturing company	Triangular fuzzy numbers	Awasthi et al. (2018)
AHP & TOPSIS	Steel industry	-	Azimifard et al. (2018)
ELECTRE	Numerical test	-	Lu et al. (2018)
TOPSIS	Pharmaceutical enterprise	-	Song and Li (2018)
Method of moments	Green SC	-	Khan et al. (2018)
ANP & VIKOR	Importing company	Triangular Neutrosophic numbers	Abdel-Baset et al. (2019)
VIKOR & DEA	Supermarket chain	Type-2 fuzzy sets	Alikhani et al. (2019)
DEA & TOPSIS	Logistics service providers	FST	Rashidi and Cullinane (2019)
VIKOR	Numerical example	Dempster–Shafer evidence theory	Fei et al. (2019)
SWARA & BWM	Household Furnishing Materials	-	Zolfani and Chatterjee (2019)
CoCoSo	Construction comanpy	Grey numbers	Yazdani et al. (2019)
MARCOS	Healthcare industries	-	Stević et al. (2020)
AHP & TOPSIS	Iron and steel industries	Fuzzy Inference System	Jain et al. (2020)
TOPSIS	Numerical example	Intuitionistic Fuzzy	Rouyendegh et al. (2020)
VIKOR	Automobile part manufacturing	2-tuple linguistic fuzzy set	Wen et al. (2020)
BWM & CoCoSo	Home appliances manufacturing	FST	Ecer and Pamucar (2020)
DEMATEL & BWM & EDAS	Healthcare supplier selection	-	Yazdani et al. (2020)