Decentralized Agent-based Electronic Marketplace Supply Chain Ecosystem

Abstract

Electronic marketplaces have become an essential part of the business to business e-commerce. Supply chain concept is fully taking advantage of using the network effects in electronic marketplaces due to augmented added value from each participant. However, highly desirable network effects lead to one company monopoly over the whole marketplace. To prevent this effect, authors are proposing and devising a decentralized agent-based electronic marketplace for supply chain ecosystem. The goal of our research is to improve overall supply chain service quality by allowing companies’ agents to evaluate the service quality of their partners through the history of their transactions. Consequently, since in their procurement activities more informed decisions are being made instantaneously, continuously and autonomously at each node of a supply chain, supply chain service quality is being improved along the whole supply chain.

Supply Chain Service Quality Improvement by E-marketplace Automation

“…Since they usually represent some extraordinary events and offer us little information on their background, high oscillations in SCM are generally considered negative. In other words, our service quality assessment model is feasible and better suited for automated decision-making in our e-marketplace platform [27] than solely price-based decision-making. When introduced as a global e-marketplace platform with automated QoS-oriented reasoning, it would render an objective SCM broker to all participating partners.…”

“…In the framework of our research, a decentralized agent-based e-marketplace platform has been devised [27]. As companies arise, they are registered with a yellow-page service corresponding to their line of business in general and their products in particular, as well as assigned agents that represent them in the e-marketplace.…”

“…According to [11], automation of supply chain management systems has long been a principal use of both academia and industry. In general, two approaches of service transformation in the digital era can be observed for efficient, service-quality-oriented supply chain management: 1) Centralized e-marketplace web portals, combining demand and supply in a temporally and spatially shared repository [12,13], and 2) Decentralized, agent-based e-marketplaces with a yellow-page dictionary service and distributed network of temporally and spatially distributed agents of supply chain partners [14,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29]. E-marketplaces have become an essential part of e-commerce.…”

Benchmarking Analysis of Factors Influencing Container Traffic in the Port of Rijeka

“…There are many researches that highlight the significant role of maritime ports. Hence, many researchers investigate the importance of port's supply chain integration (Bartholdi et al, 2016;Gumzej & Čišić, 2018;Host et al, 2018;Onwuegbuchunam et al, 2018;Trupac & Twrdy, 2010), their importance for the port-city relationship (Hesse, 2018;Monios et al, 2018;Schiozzi et al, 2018), and hinterland connections (Bergqvist, 2015;Notteboom & Rodrigue, 2007;Van Der Horst & De Langen, 2008). Other emphasize the importance and quality of container shipping liners (El Kalla et al, 2017; Hirata, 2017; Kos et al, 2010) and the importance of working timetable har-and the importance of working timetable harmonization between seaport clusters (Karmelić & Tijan, 2018).…”