Experience in Developing Concurrent Inferences on a De-regulated Supply Chain Network

Abstract

A de-regulated supply chain network allows providers and requesters to freely engage with each other without having to go through the pre-agreed supply chain channels. This poses a potentially complex situation with a high degree of uncertainty in an e-business environment where the size of the marketplace can grow very rapidly. Inference is a way of discovering the best use of resources to reach a balance between supply and demand. It is a solution to help establish a designated relationship between supplier and requester. In this paper, we share the experience of developing concurrent inferences and reasoning on the supply chain network to ensure the efficient establishment of channels between suppliers and requesters. The focus will be on the design and implementation of the concurrent inference process on the supply chain and comes with preliminary experimental results.