Purpose: Recently, in turbulent and highly competitive marketplace, organizational sustainability in the long run necessitates the adaptation of appropriate supply chain (SC) strategies. Hence, traditional SC philosophies are being restructured nowadays to fulfill different business goals....

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to attempt supplier selection considering economic, environmental and social sustainability issues. Design/methodology/approach: Subjective human judgment bears some kind of vagueness and ambiguity; fuzzy set theory has immense potential to overcome this....