Software Agents: Enabling Dynamic Supply Chain Management for a Build to Order Product Line

Some dynamic supply chain problems are instances of a class of distributed optimization problems that intelligent agents were made to address. Agents are thus a natural enabling technology for such problems. In this paper we describe the use of TAEMS agent technologies on a sterilized dynamic supply chain management problem.

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