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A supply chain (SC) is a network of supplier, factories, warehouse, distribution centers, retailers, and customers, through which raw materials are acquired, transformed, produced, and delivered to the customers. As a complex network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distributors, and retailers, the highly effective and efficient operations of a SC depend on the speedily moving of information flows...
Collaborative purchasing is a new type of purchasing methods, which not only can effectively integrate and control resources of small and middle sized enterprises (SMEs), but also can give full play to advantages of scale purchasing, reduce purchasing costs and streamline purchasing processes. Based on the analysis of the advantages of collaborative purchasing and the characteristics of multi-agent...
With the increasingly severe global market competition, the nature of enterprise competition has changed from competition among enterprises into the competition among supply chains. Lowering operating costs of the supply chain and responding to market quickly have become the main objectives of the supply chain management (SCM). The emerging grid workflow technology which can integrate heterogeneous...
A critical challenge to create effective agent-based systems is allowing them to operate effectively when the design environment is complex, dynamic, and error-prone. Much research has been made on multi-agent system (MAS) in CSCD field, especially on conflict handling, which is not yet well-addressed due to its sophistication. Conflict resolution plays a central role in collaborative design. In this...
A supply chain (SC) is a world-wide complex network of suppliers, factories, warehouses, distribution centers and retailers. Due to the features of its production planning: distribution, autonomy, synchronism and openness, the traditional methods of production planning are unable to meet the demands of supply chain production planning (SCPP). Under collaborative environment, in order to eliminate...
A multi-agent based architecture is bring on to improve the collaborative feature of traditional CAD system for those designers need collaboration each other but locate on different place. Three levels is are included in this proposed system framework, namely real-time monitoring agent, conflict detection agent, conflict solution agent, user communication agent and knowledge management agent. Detail...
Most manufacturing companies have realized that the ability to quickly develop a customized product through an economic and efficient way is critical for them to survive in the keen competitive global market. In order to shorten the lead time to market, the product design and manufacturing requires designers and engineers from different departments of the enterprise to work together within a collaborative...
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