NDLI: Agent-Based Supply Chain Integration

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Nissen, Mark E.
Copyright Year	2001
Abstract	Supply chain management represents a critical competency in today's fast-paced, global business environment. However, in the current transition from EDI to Web-based supply chain technologies, much of the capability for process integration is being lost. And the integration of buyer and seller supply chain processes is critical for speed and responsiveness in today's hypercompetitive product and service markets. Intelligent agent technology offers the potential to overcome many limitations of current supply chain technologies. This paper presents intelligent supply chain agents that represent and autonomously conduct business on behalf of product users, buyers and vendors. We classify and present numerous extant agent applications and extend a technological framework to compare and contrast intelligent agents with other classes of information technology. We then describe an agent-based supply chain process design, along with its developmental techniques, and the structure and behavior of an agent federation used for integration in a major enterprise. We present results of this exploratory research in terms of technical feasibility and process performance in the enterprise context. This work is novel in that it integrates process-level knowledge from operational enterprises with distributed agent technologies. And it makes a contribution by demonstrating how agent-based supply chain integration can be effected along a large-scale, operational, inter-organizational process.
Starting Page	289
Ending Page	312
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1385951X
Journal	Information Technology and Management
Volume Number	2
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15737667
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2001-01-01
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Computer Communication Networks Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory Business/Management Science Operation Research/Decision Theory Business Information Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Business, Management and Accounting Information Systems Communication

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