Supplier selection and evaluation has attracted serious research attention at both the academic and the practitioner levels. In this paper, an attempt is made to review the status of methodology literature in supplier selection. A total of 154 papers from 68 refereed journals were selected and reviewed. This paper provides insights to the literature by considering the breakdown of journals that have published research in this area, by classifying the literature into various categories and considering the various methods/techniques suggested in the literature. Eased on the review, avenues for further research are also discussed