Title :
Study on a New System for Inventory Control
Author :
Xiaoyu Zhu ; Xiaojiu Li
Author_Institution :
Tianjin Polytech. Univ., Tianjin
Abstract :
As we all know, inventory control is important in a clothing company and Agent Technology has become very popular in the last few years as a new approach to developing software systems. This paper study on a newt system for inventory control using planning and distributed agents in apparel industry. Multi Agent Systems (MAS), a term used to describe the incorporation of multiple types of agents into various systems, is a way of designing and implementing a system with the advantages of agent entities. We chose to use agents as a decision support tool for use in a Retail Inventory Management System. Since the management of inventory is crucial to the success of most companies, and since we see a potential major role for agents in the business process management MAS seems a likely choice for a decision support platform. This work stems from our prior work in simulating a MAS inventory system, then implementing the system for production use.
Keywords :
clothing industry; decision support systems; multi-agent systems; production engineering computing; stock control; agent technology; apparel indursty; business process management; clothing company; decision support tool; distributed agents; inventory control; multiagent systems; retail inventory management system; software systems; Costs; Data analysis; Decision making; Decision support systems; Demand forecasting; Humans; Inventory control; Inventory management; Predictive models; Production systems; Decision Support Systems; Distributed Agents; Inventory Control;
Conference_Titel :
Intelligent Computation Technology and Automation (ICICTA), 2008 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hunan
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3357-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICICTA.2008.143