Self-assembly of supplier selection strategies

This paper focuses on the formation of supplier selection strategies that are used in an operational context. Because of the nature of the modern day environment, designing and forming good strategies is a difficult and laborious task. The goal of this paper is to showcase our work on implementing an algorithm that is capable of self-assembling a strategy without the need for explicit knowledge or assumptions about the known information about an environment. To our best knowledge, this is the first time that self-assembly - a common phenomenon in nature - is proposed as an approach to forming strategies for use in supply chains.