Supply chain management using multi-agent system

Supply Chain Management is a concept that assumes a business as a chain of inter-connected entities of commercial activities [24]. Therefore, the objective of Supply Chain Management is reducing inventory, lead times and cost at each link under the given constraints. In this paper, we propose a cooperation model for Supply Chain Management using Multi-Agent System. This model constructs a relevant supply chain through iterated matchmaking process. The matchmaking process makes connection between service provider and service requestor for each link of the supply chain [23]. The effective supply chain can be made when each link of the supply chain is connected properly. In order to make a proper connection for each link, this proposed model uses multi-agent system as foundation architecture and uses clustering, rule-based system and neural networks as matching method. With this model, we can make optimum chain connection from the procurement to the customer.