Developing agile supply chains --- system model, algorithms, applications

  • Authors:
  • Katarzyna Grzybowska;Gábor Kovács

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Engineering Management, Chair of Production Engineering and Logistics, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland;Faculty of Transportation Engineering and Vehicle Engineering, Department of Transportation Technology, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • KES-AMSTA'12 Proceedings of the 6th KES international conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems: technologies and applications
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Nowadays, a modern company operates as a network of companies, not as a single company. These companies are called virtual enterprises, whose main purpose is the maximal fulfilment of costumer needs. Based on this, the paper presents the construction of agile supply chains and as an example it details the model, the algorithms and the applications of a modern electronic freight and warehouse exchange, which is a type of virtual enterprises.