A system architecture for agent based supply chain management platform

Author

Li, Tie ; Feng, Zhiyong

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Technol., Tianjin Univ., China

Volume

2

fYear

2003

fDate

4-7 May 2003

Firstpage

713

Abstract

Supply chain management concerns about project information sharing, process integration, and coordination of decisions. To meet the requirement of these businesses, a J2EE based multiagent platform is proposed, in which the functions of supply chain is decomposed into groups formed by various types of intelligent agents. Each group performs a task such as production schedule controlling or inventory level monitoring, and each group interacts with others by conversations to complete their tasks. The layered architecture of the platform, as well as the conversation approach and implementation issues of this platform is presented, and we think it an effective tool for building the virtual organization of enterprises.

Keywords

decision support systems; inventory management; multi-agent systems; production control; supply chain management; virtual enterprises; J2EE; agent based supply chain management platform; conversation; decision coordination; group interaction; intelligent agent; inventory level monitoring; layered architecture; message; multiagent platform; process integration; production schedule control; project information sharing; supply chain decomposition; system architecture; virtual organization enterprise; Buildings; Dispatching; Distributed computing; Intelligent agent; Job shop scheduling; Management information systems; Production planning; Supply chain management; Supply chains; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2003. IEEE CCECE 2003. Canadian Conference on

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7781-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2003.1225994

Filename

1225994