Abstract
Advanced system based on ontology and multi agent technology to handle upstream supply chain: intelligent negotiation protocol for supplier and transportation provider selection
Highlights
Nowadays, the globalization and the evolution of organizations spawn new challenges and risks for companies
We present a multi-issue decision protocol based on ontology to support the negotiation between upstream nodes of supply chain in the proposed multi agent system
In contemporary supply chain management, the performance of potential suppliers is evaluated against multiple criteria rather than considering a single factor – cost, it is abstracted as a multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) problem that analyses and measures the performances of a set of suppliers on multiple selection criteria by decision making methods(De Boer et al, 2001)
Summary
The globalization and the evolution of organizations spawn new challenges and risks for companies To face these changes, collaborative work between all actors in the supply chain is required. Existing agent-based negotiation models for supplier selection focus only on the decision criteria such as cost, quality, delivery time and the like. Few studies have explicitly addressed the role of transport in the issue of supplier selection in supply chain design and management, which is an important limitation.
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