eMarketplace Model: An Architecture for Collaborative Supply Chain Management and Integration

Abstract

The current economic climate forces businesses to collaborate more frequently and build efficient organizations and supply chains that reduce timeto-market and costs. This chapter argues that an electronic marketplace (eMarketplace) is a promising architectural model to develop collaborative supply chain management and integration platform. It supports coordination mechanisms and integration at the business and systems levels of the enterprise and the supply chain. In this architecture, the eMarketplace exists as a collection of economically motivated software agents of service-oriented cooperative distributed systems. It enables and supports common integration and economic services between market participants. This chapter presents an agent-oriented dynamic trading mechanism that produces an integrated supply chain for the eMarketplace. Future eMarketplaces need to support both market-based and relationship-based supply chains. To this end, this chapter discusses coordination approaches based on market mechanisms such as auctions and multi-issue negotiation. The objective is to enable business entities to obtain efficient resource allocation while preserving long-term relationships.

Learning approaches for developing successful seller strategies in dynamic supply chain management

“…After such basic models as e-Shops and e-Procurement, e-Marketplaces have emerged to integrate all business entities (suppliers, customers, partners, trading agents, competitors, etc.) within one global electronic environment [24]. These newly established economic institutes are dynamic, rapidly growing and changing.…”

Privacy-based computation model in e-business

“…In open auctions, bidders can know the bid value of the others and will iteratively have an opportunity to offer competitive bids. However, in open distributed environments, where an auction can be distributed over space and/or time, an iterative mechanism might not be feasible (Ghenniwa et al, 2006). A standard form of one-shot auctions is the first-price sealed bid auction.…”

“…Markets comprise a class of resource allocation mechanisms in which agents exchange resources for money, at prices determined through interaction or bids. When the price-determination process is mediated, and follows explicit rules mapping bids into allocations, the mechanism constitutes an auction (Ghenniwa et al, 2006).…”

“…They are finding it necessary to collaborate to build more efficient operations and supply chains that reduce time-to-market and costs. Electronic business is the use of the Internet along with other electronic means and technologies to conduct such collaborations within businesses, from businesses to consumers, among businesses, and from businesses to government (Ghenniwa et al, 2006). …”

Ανάπτυξη Μοντέλου Συνεργατικού Ηλεκτρονικού Εμπορίου Για Την Υποστήριξη Δικτύων Πολύ Μικρών Επιχειρήσεων

“… Σε μία από τις παραπάνω διαστάσεις ανάλυσης όπως οι μελέτες των , Ghenniwa et al (2006), Ignatiadis et al (2007), Norta (2010), Bagheri andOppenheim (2011), Chang (2013).…”