ECA Rule and Multi-Agent Based Agile Supply Chain Management
Shensheng Zhang, Cit Lab · Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems · 2001
Agile supply chain management is becoming the powerful method for enterprises to improve their global market competition. Enterprises always need to re-construct their supply chain for the dynamic market. So it is important for enterprises to make supply chain management system adapt to the market change. This paper proposes a method to implement the supply chain management based on multi-agent system. The agents are adapted to process the business transaction. ECA rules express the business logic and schedules the multi-agent running. The system is reusability and dynamic scalability. It provides an effective way for enterprise to reuse the information.