Workflow-based agents for Supply Chain Management

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 domains has not been hold. Concerning Supply Chain Management, using workflows to model processes both within and between companies seems a promising approach. The paper gives a technical description of the prototype implementation as well as an example of how to make use of it.