Consumer oriented Supply Chain Management based on mobile agent system

To satisfy the rapidly changing demand in global market, Supply Chain Management (SCM) must be consumer oriented and flexible enough. In customer oriented SCM, the performance of SCM has become the decisive factor to satisfy various demands with the lowest cost. In order to provide a new method and effective solution for consumer oriented SCM, this paper first presented a grid-based supply chain model to improve its flexibility and efficiency, and then applied mobile agent system to deal with some complicated activities in that SCM. Application in the case of flower trading has shown that this system can fulfill the trading process intelligently and automatically.