Cooperative planning in dynamic supply chains
Américo Lopes Azevedo, César Toscano, Jorge Pinho de Sousa · International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing · 2005
This paper describes an order planning system for dynamic supply chains, addressing the requirements of a make-to-order business environment. A distributed and decentralized information system based on an architecture of agents and extensively using the internet was designed and implemented, so as to enable new and more powerful decision support. The system aims at responding to the basic requirements of cooperativeness, integration and configurability. It was developed under the scope of the IST European Project Co-OPERATE and implements the functionality defined in the context of the ‘request feasibility studies for the network’ (ReFS) business solution.