An Agent-Based Architecture for Suply Chain Management

Author

Dong, Shao-hui ; Xi, Bao ; Tian, Li-na ; Huang, Qiu-guo ; Chen, Hong-xia

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Harbin Inst. of Technol.

fYear

2006

fDate

13-16 Aug. 2006

Firstpage

137

Lastpage

141

Abstract

In process of SCM, the information is distributed and heterogeneous in nature. And the decisions are often optimized locally but do not assure a global optimization for the whole supply chain. To address these problems, an agent-based architecture has been developed which viewed SCM as consisted of flows and agents two objects. And the agents were classified into structural and functional agents to represent the entities and activities in SCM. In the architecture, the KQML has been used to realize the coordination among the agents. To illustrate the architecture, a SWARM-based simulation work has been proposed and the results implied that the architecture provides a very efficient platform to design and optimize the supply chain, and in cost saving, improve order processing, shorten lead-time, and improve customer satisfaction has played a very important role

Keywords

multi-agent systems; supply chain management; agent-based architecture; customer satisfaction; order processing; supply chain management; Conference management; Constraint optimization; Cost function; Customer satisfaction; Cybernetics; Design optimization; Educational institutions; Intelligent agent; Machine learning; Multiagent systems; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Technology management; Supply chain management; coordination; intelligent agents; simulation; supply chain modeling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 2006 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian, China

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0061-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMLC.2006.258885

Filename

4028046