Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach
by Lynda Mekaouche, Fouzia Ounnar, Patrick Pujo, Norbert Giambiasi
International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management (IJLSM), Vol. 5, No. 3/4, 2009

Abstract: Many companies increasingly turn to their core activities to improve their reactivity and to manage their costs. The paper propose a self-organised control of relations between companies in which all the members of a partnership negotiate to guarantee good quality connections between customers and suppliers. Each partner is associated with a decision-making entity named Autonomous Control Entity through which he can evaluate his performance. The integration of the ACEs into a holonic control system is presented. The validation of such a control system for a self-organised logistic partnership network was done through a distributed High Level Architecture simulation environment.

Online publication date: Sat, 10-Jan-2009

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