Abstract. Supply chains are a current, challenging problem for agentbased electronic commerce. Motivated by the Trading Agent Competition Supply Chain Management (TAC SCM) scenario...
We consider a firm that faces random demand and receives product from a single supplier who faces random supply. The supplier's availability may be affected by events such as...
Some recent trends in business and manufacturing hold the promise of greater profits, yet, due to profit-robbing inventory increases, this promise has not been fully realized. [9]...
Indu Bingham, Barbara Hoefle, Kim Phan, Jim Sizemo...
The case study method supported by interviews is used widely by IS researchers. In `messy' problems, such as the adoption of e-procurement across manufacturing supply chains,...
— In this paper, the problem of optimizing the performances of a distributed supply chain is faced by means of a decentralized architecture. In particular, a general scheme for a...