Modeling the supply chain based on multi-agent conflicts

Supply chain management is about integrated business planning that have been espoused by logistics experts, strategists, operations research practitioners, and information technologists. The information revolution has accelerated significantly in recent years. Multi-agent system based approaches for supply chain modeling was, thus, proposed to model the supply chain by many researchers. Instead of model, implement and analysis supply chain networks with generic multi-agent framework, this paper focuses on modeling the interrelationships across a supply chain by using multi-agent conflict detection and resolution methodology. We propose a multi-agent conflict detection and resolution methodology for modeling supply chain. The optimization and near optimization solutions of supply chain networks can be determined based on the multi-agent conflicts.