An Agent-Based Approach for Sourcing Business Rules in Supply Chain Management

SMEs form a virtual enterprise—a short-term loose integration, to meet business opportunities; managers of SMEs are looking for a tool that could help them design the strategic model of the supply chain in which they are collaboratively involved. Though the use of e-commerce tools has a lot of potential to improve an enterprise’s collaboration efforts with other enterprises, realizing an e-commerce tool that enables collaborative supply chain design and development is not easy, as collaborating enterprises may each use a different flavor of XML, multiple technology solutions, and have different business rules. This chapter presents a methodology for developing a new e-commerce tool to assist collaborative supply chain management. By this methodology, a new tool that is affordable by the SMEs and offers improved pipeline visibility could be easily implemented.

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An Agent-Based Collaborative Negotiation System for Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Management

Global Information Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch188 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 2598-2617

Author(s):

Jianxin Jiao ◽

Xiao You ◽

Arun Kumar

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Broad Class ◽

Chain Management ◽

Agent Based ◽

Global Manufacturing ◽

Manufacturing Supply Chain ◽

Collaborative Negotiation ◽

Multi Agent

This chapter applies the multi-agent system paradigm to collaborative negotiation in a global manufacturing supply chain network. Multi-agent computational environments are suitable for dealing with a broad class of coordination and negotiation issues involving multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous problem-solving agents. An agent-based multi-contract negotiation system is proposed for global manufacturingsupply chain coordination. Also reported is a case study of mobile phone global manufacturing supply chain management.

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Application of Agent-Based Technology as Coordination and Cooperation in the Supply Chain Based E-Business

Strategic Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-677-8.ch057 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 887-907

Author(s):

Golenur Begum Huq ◽

Robyn Lawson

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Multiagent System ◽

Theoretical Solution ◽

Electronic Business ◽

Chain Management ◽

Agent Based ◽

Business Partners ◽

Common Goals

This chapter explores the utilization of a multiagent system in the field of supply chain management for electronic business. It investigates the coordination and cooperation processes, and proposes and discusses a newly developed model for an enhanced and effective cooperation process for e-business. The contribution made by this research provides a theoretical solution and model for agents that adopt the enhanced strategy for e-business. Both large organizations and SMEs will benefit by increasing and expanding their businesses globally, and by participating and sharing with business partners to achieve common goals. As a consequence, the organizations involved will each earn more profit.

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An Agent-Based Collaborative Negotiation System for Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Management

Global Integrated Supply Chain Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-611-2.ch015 ◽

2006 ◽

pp. 243-271 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jianxin Jiao ◽

Xiao You ◽

Arun Kumar

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Broad Class ◽

Chain Management ◽

Agent Based ◽

Global Manufacturing ◽

Manufacturing Supply Chain ◽

Collaborative Negotiation ◽

Multi Agent

This chapter applies the multi-agent system paradigm to collaborative negotiation in a global manufacturing supply chain network. Multi-agent computational environments are suitable for dealing with a broad class of coordination and negotiation issues involving multiple autonomous or semi-autonomous problem-solving agents. An agent-based multi-contract negotiation system is proposed for global manufacturingsupply chain coordination. Also reported is a case study of mobile phone global manufacturing supply chain management.

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An agent-based architecture for supply chain management

2013 IEEE Eleventh International Symposium on Autonomous Decentralized Systems (ISADS) ◽

10.1109/isads.2013.6513405 ◽

2013 ◽

Author(s):

Carlos R. Jaimez-Gonzalez ◽

Wulfrano A. Luna-Ramirez

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Chain Management ◽

Agent Based

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Study on multi-agent-based agile supply chain management

The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology ◽

10.1007/s00170-003-1626-x ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 23 (3-4) ◽

pp. 197-203 ◽

Cited By ~ 63

Author(s):

Ping Lou ◽

Zu-de Zhou ◽

You-Ping Chen ◽

Wu Ai

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Chain Management ◽

Agent Based ◽

Agile Supply Chain ◽

Multi Agent

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The Use of Multi-Agent Systems in Managing Sustainable Supply Chain

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.315.108 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 315 ◽

pp. 108-112

Author(s):

Majid Aarabi ◽

Muhamad Zameri Mat Saman ◽

Kuan Yew Wong

Keyword(s):

Supply Chain ◽

Supply Chain Management ◽

Supply Chains ◽

Sustainable Supply Chain ◽

Multi Agent Systems ◽

Chain Management ◽

Agent Based ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Proposed Model ◽

Multi Agent

The main purposes and challenges in supply chain management are reducing cost and time. Significantly, factors such as the competition of markets in the globe, limitation of energy, raw and virgin materials, environmental protection crisis and increasing of global population dramatically are causing unprecedented issues for the worldwide supply chains for providing goods and services to customers efficiently and effectively. The sustainability approach for Supply Chain Management (SCM) considers the 6Rs principles in four main stages of the supply chains: Pre-manufacture, Manufacture, Use and Post-use. The use of Multi-Agent System (MAS) prepares the most important requirements of an effective sustainable supply chain. At the same time, this agent-based approach provides reliable and agile systems, which will enable enterprises to accommodate ever changing needs of their customers in the future. In this article, the use of MAS for optimal Sustainable Supply Chain Management (SSCM) is reviewed and the integrated functioning of certain agents resulting in information sharing is also demonstrated. With this idea, an attempt is made to provide a MAS model for the SSCM. In the proposed model, each agent performs a specific function of the organization and shares information with other agents. In order to describe this multi-agent based approach, a simple case study is given to illustrate the sustainable supply chain operations.

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