An Intelligent Agent-based Architecture for Supply Chain Management

SCM has gained significance as one of this century manufacturing paradigms for improving organizational competitiveness. The very essence of SCM is effective information and material flow throughout a network of customers and suppliers and the core principle behind it is the reduction of uncertainty in decision making processes of organizations in supply chains. With the growth of the Internet, more and more companies are dedicated to e-business and electronic SCM. The e-supply chain integration module facilitates data information and transaction flow through various level of integration between disparate software application. With the aid of agent technology, knowledge management systems (KMS), and distributed decision making (DDM) mixed with the multi-agent systems (MAS) concept, we introduce ie-SCM and finally prepare the ie- SCM system architecture.

An Intelligent Agent-based Architecture for Supply Chain Management Keywords:

Intelligent electronic SCM , Electronic supply chain integration , Intelligent agent technology , Multi-agent systems , Distributed decision making