The Agent Negotiation in Materials Procurement and Management

As an important branch of artificial intelligence, agent is characterized in intelligence, initiative, interaction, reactivity, cooperation, etc. A future trend of enterprises´ development is to introduce agent to enterprises´ materials procurements and management activities, enabling several agents coordinate with each other without a direct artificial interference, accomplishing the task of materials procurement and management, and achieving the intelligence in materials procurement and management. This paper discusses the negotiating period in materials procurement and management.