Agent-Based Supply Chain Management: Bidding for Customer Orders

Topics:
Logistics Planning
Tags:
Agent,
Business Operations,
Enterprise Software,
Real Estate,
SCM,
Software,
Supply Chain,
Supply Chain Management (SCM)
Source:
Association for Computing Machinery

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Overview: Supply chains are a current, challenging problem for agent-based electronic commerce. Motivated by the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) scenario, the author's considers an individual supply chain agent as having three major subtasks: acquiring supplies, selling products, and managing its local manufacturing process. In this paper, the author's focuses on the sales subtask. In particular, they consider the problem of finding the set of bids to customers in simultaneous reverse auctions that maximizes the agent's expected profit.

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Format: PDF | Size: 71KB | Date: Jul 2004 | Pages: 2

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