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To respond to customer demand businesses invest in capacities and supply. Any mismatch results in obsolescent stock, wasted resources and lost sales. In this paper the considerations for design & deployment of an Enterprise Grade Real-time Multi Agent System for supply chain synchronization is presented, so that each and every business involved in the supply chain can adjust their activities to...
In the course of globalization competitive pressure is rising in most industrial sectors. High quality products are basic prerequisites for companies of high wage countries to be present on the global market. Improved adherence to delivery date, increased flexibility despite to decreased production costs are some examples of the challenges to be managed just to keep current positions. In general,...
This paper presents the application of workflow-based agents to the field of Supply Chain Management. While the use of multi-agent systems has long been advocated for the coordination of planning between companies and different prototypes have been implemented, a comprehensive discussion on what technologies and architectures are most beneficial for this case and how these can be provided for specific...
A new generic negotiation mechanism to coordinate decentralized planning of a group of independent and self-interested decision makers or agents, who are searching for an agreeable contract regarding multiple interdependent issues, in the case of asymmetric information is presented. The basic idea of the mechanism is that the group members carry out a joint search based on a mediated pheromone matrix...
Because of current strong globalization trend, manufacturers and planners are more willing to cooperate in many aspects such as purchasing, production, planning and so on. Accordingly, capacity planning of supply chain should also be done in order to maximize the overall interests of supply chain. Firstly, the difference between capacity planning of supply chain and traditional capacity planning is...
Information technology has become a strong modeling approach to support the complexities involved in a process. One example of this technology is the multiagent system which, from a decentralized supply chain configuration perspective, supports the information sharing processes that any of its nodes will be able to carry out to support its process in a collaborative manner: for example, the planning...
In a complex supply web many companies and their supply chains are integrated. While homogenous agent systems like factories can be controlled by the company, this does not apply for supply webs. They show a swarm-like emergent behavior, which follows rules not fully controllable. This paper covers three stages necessary to achieve a visual management of such a complex system: (1) multi-multiagent...
Although modern logistics networks (LNs) plays a major role in effectively cutting the cost of enterprise, studies that deal specifically with the dynamics of logistics networks are few, which is very common in circumstance of e-commerce. In order to provide a vehicle for dynamic modeling and analysis of logistics networks operations in vague and uncertain environments, we present our ongoing work...
Under the circumstance of globalization and the distributed production process, this paper presents a distributed process planning and the application of Agent. An Agent-based multi-node distributed organizational structure is proposed. A hierarchical organizational structure and the application of Agent are discussed .Within the application areas Agent-based supply chain example is given.
The application of multi-agent systems in the context of supply chain management has been much discussed during the last years and several implementations have emerged within research. Yet very few applications are actually being used in practice. The reason for this lies in an existing gap between domain concepts and agent technology, which complicates the application oriented development. A framework...
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...
Event management is a problem in the supply chain context that requires a solution with the goal of mitigate the event effect during the execution plan. We present an autonomous agent-based approach to support a system for this problem. Our proposal introduces two novel aspects: we conceive the system as a collaborative inter-organizational information system and we aim to provide autonomous mechanisms...
This paper discusses the supply planning problem for remanufacturing system, and the supply chain is composed of one manufacturer agent (MA), one supplier agent (SA), and one collector agent (CA), in which the recovery and the treatment of the used products are done by CA. Both MA and SA have two alternatives for supplying each production materials: either ordering the required parts to each supplier...
This paper introduces a meta-heuristic enabled multi-agent optimization architecture for dynamic transportation planning in the supply chain procurement (SCP) plans. When multi-agent systems (MAS) are used for real-time dynamic optimization, agents seek the solution using distributed heuristics. However, distributed heuristics based on local information are prone to converge at local optimality. To...
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