Outsourcing is one of the key issues in supply chain management in industry sector to decrease the costs and transportation time and to increase competitive ability of industrial units. In order to carry out a successful outsourcing in supply chain management some appropriate evaluation indices should be considered for investigating suppliers’ performance; in this case, the performance of industrial units’ suppliers can be assessed based on the importance of these indices in each area of industry. In this article, those industrial areas in Kurdistan province which can be potentially transformed into clusters have been identified and those industrial units that can be established in each potential industrial cluster have been presented. Afterwards, the appropriate performance indices have been selected to evaluate suppliers in outsourcing process, the weights of these indices have been calculated separately in each potential industrial cluster, and industrial units’ suppliers of each cluster have been identified. Subsequently, with regard to the nature of the obtained information, these suppliers in each potential industrial cluster have been evaluated and prioritized based on multi-criteria decision-making model(s).
