Title :
Reconfiguration based agile supply chain system
Author :
Chunxia, Lu ; Shensheng, Zhang
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., China
Abstract :
In order to improve a supply chain\´s rapid response capability to market opportunity and to optimize the value flow in supply chain management, this paper suggests that an important element to survival in these changed conditions is "agility", particularly by the creation of a responsive supply chain. Agility is interpreted as the quick creation of a supply chain system based on reconfiguration technology. This paper proposed a Web based agile architecture of a supply chain management system, comprised of a wizard based Web site in front-end agility and multi-agent/workflow based business process re-configuration in back-end agility
Keywords :
flexible manufacturing systems; management of change; manufacturing data processing; multi-agent systems; systems re-engineering; workflow management software; Web based agile architecture; multiagent based business process reconfiguration; reconfiguration based agile supply chain system; supply chain management system; value flow; wizard based Web site; workflow based business process reconfiguration; Business; Collaboration; Computer science; Management information systems; Manufacturing; Market opportunities; Reconfigurable logic; Service oriented architecture; Supply chain management; Supply chains;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2001 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tucson, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7087-2
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.2001.973050
