Today, planning and control of logistic processes on automobile terminals are generally executed by centralised logistics systems, which in many cases cannot cope with the high requirements for flexible order processing due to increasing dynamics and complexity. The main business processes on automobile terminals – notification of vehicles by automobile manufacturer, transport to automobile ter...

Scheduling problems are usually treated within single plant environments or within companies with several production locations. Due to the globalization of markets companies can no longer be regarded isolated from each other. They are in fact elements of spatially distributed production and logistics networks, where apart from the actual production process transport and stock keeping gain impor...

With the improvement of supply chain management and development of information technology, the nature of business processes has changed from intraenterprise to cross-enterprise. Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) come into being in this case. The literature of CPFR and the Internet of Things are discussed. The information integration of CPFR in inbound logistics of aut...

Today‟s production systems face the challenge of high dynamics and rising complexity which calls for new ways of production planning and control. Autonomous control in logistics lets each logistic object take its own decisions and thus leads to a shift from central planning in advance to production control in real time. This paper presents the results of a comparison of different autonomous con...

We present a novel approach to multiagent planning for selfinterested agents. The main idea behind our approach is that multiagent planning systems should be built upon (singleagent) plan repair systems. In our system agents can exchange goals and subgoals through an auction, using their own heuristics or utility functions to determine when to auction and what to bid. Some experimental results ...

This paper presents a case study conducted in a semi-conductor manufacturing company concerning information systems planning in the context of reengineering business models for elogistics. A framework based on business process reengineering (BPR) is described. To enhance BPR efforts, the benchmarking technique is introduced as an analysis tool for redesigning business models. The framework emph...

Vendor managed resupply is an emerging trend in logistics and refers to a situation in which a supplier manages the inventory replenishment of its customers. Vendors save on distribution cost by being able to better coordinate deliveries to different customers, and customers do not have to dedicate resources to inventory management anymore. We present and discuss the inventory routing problem. ...

The emphasis on increasing product variety and individualization has created a strong demand for a new strategy of Mass Customization Manufacturing (MCM). A competitive and flexible manufacturing system must be developed to respond to small batches of customer demand. In this paper, problems of highly flexible process-control and logistics-management methodologies are addressed to meet MCM need...

In the situation where a large increase in trade and freight transport volumes in the Baltic Sea region (BSR) is expected and in which the BSR is facing a major economic restructuring, efforts to achieve more integrated and sustainable transport and communication links within the BSR are needed. One of these efforts is the development of logistics centres (LCs) and their networking, which will ...

Since consideration of individual customer’ demands is of increasing importance, enterprises are in need of more flexible production for highly customized products even in serial production. Hence, innovative concepts for improved information logistics are necessary for competitive manufacturing. This paper presents an approach for integrated agent-based process planning and production control ...