An agent-based and organisation oriented software architecture for supply chains simulation

The Supply Chain (SC) organizational structure and related management policies are crucial factors that can be adjusted to improve the SC performance, and tested through simulations. To facilitate the design of these simulations, we have proposed an agent-based methodological framework for SC modelling, taking into account observables of different levels of details and related to these SC organizational aspects. This paper describes an Agent-based software architecture, based on a mediator, enacting this methodological framework at a software level, to allow SC organisational-oriented simulation. This architecture can be seen as the interaction between different simulation platforms.