SME Oriented Purchasing Consortium Based on MAS

Author

Zhu, Changlei ; Liang, Liang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Manage., Univ. of Sci. & Technol. of China, Hefei, China

fYear

2009

fDate

16-17 May 2009

Firstpage

808

Lastpage

811

Abstract

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have been playing more and more important roles in modern economy. However, only a little attention has been paid to the SME oriented supply chain management research. Purchasing is one of the most important components of supply chain management. To profit from cooperative purchasing, this paper proposes a SME oriented multi-agent system (MAS), which constructs and coordinates a purchasing consortium. And the structure of the MAS and the outline of negotiation process are illustrated in detail. A modified aggregation algorithm based on situation assessment is used in this group decision support system (GDSS), which facilitates the selection of proper suppliers for members of the consortium.

Keywords

multi-agent systems; purchasing; small-to-medium enterprises; supply chain management; cooperative purchasing; group decision support system; modified aggregation algorithm; multi-agent system; purchasing consortium; small and medium sized enterprises; supply chain management; Aggregates; Decision support systems; Electronic commerce; Engineering management; Helium; Multiagent systems; Procurement; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Technology management; GDSS; MAS; SME; aggregation; purchasing consortium;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Engineering and Electronic Commerce, 2009. IEEC '09. International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Ternopil

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3686-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IEEC.2009.175

Filename

5175234