The negotiation algorithm in the Supply Chain management with multi-agent technology

摘要

In supply chain management, improving the efficiency of the overall supply chain is of key interest. Because of market globalization and the advancement of e-commerce the importance of supply chain network is increasing. A supply chain can produce products for multiple markets. Also, an individual company is likely to have only limited visibility of the supply chain structure, which makes it difficult to make future demand estimations, because the pattern of demand propagation through the supply chain depends on the capabilities and strategies of companies along the path from the markets to the company. There will be the conflict among the pursuit of the profit of all members of the SCM. In. order to maximize the total profit of the SCM, negotiation among all members is necessary. In this research, we propose to find the best negotiation strategy that makes all members of the SCM satisfied in a simple SCM. The ideas behind the suggested model are negotiation algorithm with an agent and we consider multiple factors that are price, review point and delivery time. We create agents with Java Agent Development Framework and performed the simulation under JADE and Eclipse environment. We have used benefit/cost ratio as a performance measure in order to compare our system with Kasbah system that is a typical system well known to the world. Users create autonomous agents that buy and sell goods on their behalf in the Kasbah system.