Partner selection of Agile Supply Chain based on MAX-MIN ant system

Partner selection is a key problem in the process of buildup of Agile Supply Chain. Ant Colony Optimization was adopted to solve the problem, and a partner selection of Agile Supply Chain algorithm was proposed based on improved Ant Colony Algorithm. During the process of solution, ants incline to choose those enterprises who cooperated well before to form Supply Chains, and the “self-adaptive perturbation mechanism” can avoid the prematurity of the algorithm. Finally, a typical simulation study was carried out to illustrate its validity.