Knowledge Management in Supply Chain: Complexity and a Conceptual System Framework Based on MAS

Author

Zhang, Zhi-qing ; Qin, Ling ; Yan, Hong ; Zhao, Tong-ying

Author_Institution

Coll. of Manage., Wuhan Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Wuhan

fYear

2007

fDate

21-25 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

5333

Lastpage

5336

Abstract

Knowledge management (KM) and supply chain management (SCM) has become the important success factors in this emerging era of information and competitive. This research discusses the sharing knowledge in SCM and presents a hierarchical model of it. The difficulties and complexity of KM in SCM are argued based on complexity theory and complex adaptive system theory. In the fourth section a knowledge management system framework based on multi-agents and Internet is proposed, which has the characteristics as intelligent, flexible, cross-platform and automatic etc.

Keywords

Internet; knowledge management; multi-agent systems; supply chain management; supply chains; Internet; MAS; complex adaptive system theory; complexity theory; conceptual system framework; knowledge management; multiagents; supply chain management; Chemical technology; Chemistry; Educational institutions; Environmental management; Humans; Internet; Knowledge management; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2007. WiCom 2007. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1311-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WICOM.2007.1306

Filename

4341081