DocumentCode
2842244
Title
Supply chain management with multi-agent paradigm
Author
Kaihara, Toshiya
Author_Institution
Fac. of Inf. Sci., Univ. of Marketing & Distribution Sci., Kobe
fYear
1999
fDate
1999
Firstpage
394
Lastpage
399
Abstract
Supply chain management is not always concerned with the optimal solutions in terms of product allocation. A market mechanism solves the product distribution problem by allocating the scheduled resources according to market prices. We formulate a supply chain model as a discrete resource allocation problem, and demonstrate the applicability of economic analysis to this framework. The proposed algorithm facilitates sophisticated supply chain management, which produces a pareto optimal solution in the product distribution system
Keywords
computer integrated manufacturing; economics; goods distribution; multi-agent systems; resource allocation; discrete resource allocation problem; economic analysis; market mechanism; market prices; multi-agent paradigm; pareto optimal solution; product distribution; supply chain management; Agile manufacturing; Constraint theory; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Information science; Job shop scheduling; Resource management; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Virtual enterprises;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Robot and Human Interaction, 1999. RO-MAN '99. 8th IEEE International Workshop on
Conference_Location
Pisa
Print_ISBN
0-7803-5841-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ROMAN.1999.900372
Filename
900372
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