Title :
Distribution requirements planning for agile supply chain management
Author :
Wang, Wei ; Chai, Yueting
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Basis, Dalian Naval Acad., China
Abstract :
Agile supply chain management (ASCM) transforms a business from an inward looking to a flexible out-looking business and has become a new competitive methodology. This paper aims at developing an open-focused system framework for ASCM with the introduced multi-agent technology, and the distribution requirement planning problem with limited supply capacity is discussed in order to implement the function of order agent. By means of mathematical deduction, an original model of distribution requirements planning can be translated into a linear programming problem and solved by a simplex procedure.
Keywords :
linear programming; management; planning; production control; JIT philosophy; agile supply chain management; distribution requirements planning; flexible out-looking business; linear programming; multiple agent systems; simplex method; Capacity planning; Information technology; Linear programming; Manufacturing; Mathematical model; Production facilities; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Technology planning; Virtual enterprises;
Conference_Titel :
American Control Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the 2002
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7298-0
DOI :
10.1109/ACC.2002.1024829
