Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology

Today's businesses are facing increasingly greater environmental pressures including global competitive markets, demanding customers, and accelerating technology development. In order to survive and prosper, businesses will have to manage their supply chain more effectively. The strategic solut...

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Main Author: Hu, Qing He.
Other Authors: Arun Kumar
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Published: 2008
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spelling sg-ntu-dr.10356-58142023-03-11T17:04:15Z Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology Hu, Qing He. Arun Kumar School of Mechanical and Production Engineering DRNTU::Engineering::Industrial engineering::Supply chain Today's businesses are facing increasingly greater environmental pressures including global competitive markets, demanding customers, and accelerating technology development. In order to survive and prosper, businesses will have to manage their supply chain more effectively. The strategic solution is organizing the supply chain as an integrated and customer-centered "virtual corporation" to optimize the supply chain. In this "virtual corporation", all the organizations would like to work together, display the total cooperation, not only sharing resources, time, and energy, but also the benefits they have achieved, and develop the total error free and most effective network. Supply chain planning is the core problem in supply chain decision making. With the increase in the length and size of today's supply chain, the complexity of supply chain planning explodes. Therefore,, conventional planning systems are no more advisable, because of such weaknesses as centralized top-down control, complexity, and uncertainty and such limitations as communication bandwidth and speed. This report suggests a different perspective, one that is distributed planning method, focused on the local autonomous agents who make their local plan based on total customer service. Master of Engineering (MPE) 2008-09-17T10:59:45Z 2008-09-17T10:59:45Z 2000 2000 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/5814 Nanyang Technological University application/pdf
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Hu, Qing He.
Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
description Today's businesses are facing increasingly greater environmental pressures including global competitive markets, demanding customers, and accelerating technology development. In order to survive and prosper, businesses will have to manage their supply chain more effectively. The strategic solution is organizing the supply chain as an integrated and customer-centered "virtual corporation" to optimize the supply chain. In this "virtual corporation", all the organizations would like to work together, display the total cooperation, not only sharing resources, time, and energy, but also the benefits they have achieved, and develop the total error free and most effective network. Supply chain planning is the core problem in supply chain decision making. With the increase in the length and size of today's supply chain, the complexity of supply chain planning explodes. Therefore,, conventional planning systems are no more advisable, because of such weaknesses as centralized top-down control, complexity, and uncertainty and such limitations as communication bandwidth and speed. This report suggests a different perspective, one that is distributed planning method, focused on the local autonomous agents who make their local plan based on total customer service.
author2 Arun Kumar
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Hu, Qing He.
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author Hu, Qing He.
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title Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
title_short Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
title_full Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
title_fullStr Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
title_full_unstemmed Distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
title_sort distributed decision making support for supply chain management using multiagent technology
publishDate 2008
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