In today’s dynamically changing environment, we need to be able respond in a timely manner changes supply chain processes. Software agents are successfully used management tasks for variety of purposes. The behaviour is determined by the purpose their development, and effectiveness use considered accordance with development. paper presents research on development multi-agent system management, ...

We consider a multi-product serial two echelon inventory system with stochastic demand. Inventories at the downstream location are replenished periodically using an automatic ordering system. Under vendor managed inventory strategies the upstream stage is allowed to adapt these orders in order to benefit from economies of scale. We propose three different VMI strategies, aiming to reduce the or...

The successful commercialization of any new product depends to a degree on the ability of a firm to match its supply to market demand. In an emerging industry where products have little similarity with the products in existing industries, it is very hard to predict demand patterns. In this paper, we will develop a general mathematical model for providing decision support for the design of suppl...

An almost universal assumption in the bullwhip effect modeling literature is that excess goods may be returned without restriction. We seek to determine if returns impact the level of bullwhip effect observed in a multi-stage supply chain. We build a hybrid agent/ discrete-event simulation model of a supply chain and execute it under various conditions of demand variance, lead-time variance, in...

In supply chain management, improving the efficiency of the overall supply chain is important. It has been found that sharing information between supply chain members can increase the efficiency of the supply chain by varying degrees in different situations. There are, however, many practical difficulties in sharing information with all the companies in a complex supply chain. This paper presen...

For years, researchers and practitioners have primarily investigated the various processes within manufacturing supply chains individually. Recently, however, there has been increasing attention placed on the performance, design, and analysis of the supply chain as a whole. This attention is largely a result of the rising costs of manufacturing, the shrinking resources of manufacturing bases, s...

The integration of supply chain has become an important aspect in business environment due to the various business competitive pressures. This research proposes an intelligent decision support system for supply chain integration to support a supply chain’s competitive strategy of and help an organization gain a competitive advantage. Three major issues and related information technologies (IT),...