Production planning and order acceptance in business to business electronic commerce

Calosso, T.; Cantamessa, Marco; Vu, Dang; Villa, Agostino

doi:10.1016/s0925-5273(03)00112-9

Cited by 47 publications

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“…There have been lots of research efforts aiming to extend the original CNP. One common modification is to support bidding between multiple managers and multiple contractors (Lin and Solberg 1992, Macchiaroli and Riemma 2002, Calosso et al 2003. However, they are still limited to a single task announcement in each round of bidding (figure 3(b)).…”

Section: Negotiation Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent-based negotiation approach to integrate process planning and scheduling

Wong

Leung

Mak

et al. 2006

International Journal of Production Research

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This paper presents the development of an agent-based negotiation approach to integrate process planning and scheduling (IPPS) in a job shop kind of flexible manufacturing environment. The agent-based system comprises two types of agents, part agents and machine agents, to represent parts and machines respectively. For each part, all feasible manufacturing processes and routings are recorded as alternative process plans. Similarly, alternative machines for an operation are also considered. With regard to the scheduling requirements and the alternative process plans of a part, the proposed agent-based IPPS system aims to specify the process routing and to assign the manufacturing resources effectively. To establish task allocations, the part and machine agents have to engage in bidding. Bids are evaluated in accordance with a currency function which considers an agent's multi-objectives and IPPS parameters. A negotiation protocol is developed for negotiations between the part agents and the machine agents. The protocol is modified from the contract net protocol to cater for the multiple-task and many-to-many negotiations in this paper. An agent-based framework is established to simulate the proposed IPPS approach. Experiments are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed system. The performance measures, including makespan and flowtime, are compared with those of a search technique based on a co-evolutionary algorithm.

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Section: Negotiation Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent-based negotiation approach to integrate process planning and scheduling

Wong

Leung

Mak

et al. 2006

International Journal of Production Research

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“…Calosso et al (2003) and Calosso et al (2004) proposed mixedinteger linear programming models that can be used in a multi-tier supply chain to evaluate an order from a customer, assess a bid submitted by the supplier and select the best oer.…”

Section: Negotiationmentioning

confidence: 99%

An agent-based model to support negotiation-based order acceptance in a multi-plant enterprise

Mobini

Behdani

Lukszo

et al. 2011

2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics

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SummaryOrder acceptance (OA) has a large inuence on the performance of an enterprise. On the one hand, always accepting an order when capacity is available may restrict the system to accept more protable orders in the future. On the other hand, rejecting too many orders leads to low capacity utilization and also has repercussions for future customer relations. In addition, accepting too many orders leads to an over-loaded production environment, where lead times increase and orders are delivered late. Most of these aspects of order acceptance decision-making can be handled by having proper negotiations with customers on order terms. However, this is a complex problem primarily because there are dierent actors who have various (conicting) interests, needs and objectives. Accordingly, to provide insight for the decision makers in the rms in order to develop proper strategies for order acceptance, developing appropriate models seems necessary.The objective in this research is to improve the order acceptance performance of a make-to-order multi-plant enterprise (MPE) by incorporating buyer-seller negotiations in its OA procedure with the main research question of How can the buyer-seller negotiation process contribute to the improvement of order acceptance performance in the multi-plant enterprise?For this purpose, we have developed an agent-based model to support order acceptance decisions in a multi-plant enterprise particularly using dierent negotiation settings.The research starts with literature review on order acceptance in general and negotiation in particular. A gap is identied in the OA literature: the major perspectives on the OA procedure rest on the underlying assumption that order terms are already determined which is not always tenable. In reality, order terms are usually specied by negotiation between the buyer and the seller and they are not predetermined. A negotiation-based order acceptance approach is consequently suggested in order to consider the whole activities in a negotiation process with three phases. The proposed process involves the initiation conditions for negotiation (pre-negotiation phase), the main interaction (negotiation phase) and the consequences of negotiation on the future decisions of the involved actors (post-negotiation phase). This negotiation process is a part of more general negotiation framework which is then extended into a negotiation ontology. The ontology introduces the main concepts and their relations in a negotiation problem. Next, the conceptualization of the order negotiation process in OA and the negotiation ontology are used in developing an agent-based model for buyer-seller negotiations in a case of multi-plant enterprise. The general assumptions and settings for model development are taken from a model have been presented by Behdani et al. (2010) for a lube oil multi-plant case study motivated by a real supply chain.In this research, the previous model is extended by incorporating negotiation between the ii enterprise and its customers on order terms. Final...

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“…In this paper, the wellknown CNP (contract net protocol) presented by Smith (1980) and Smith and Davis (1981) is extended to enable a many-to-many negotiation rather than a simple auction. Although there have been numerous research efforts to support multi-thread negotiations among several contractors (e.g., Lin and Solberg 1992, MacChiaroli and Riemma 2002, Calosso et al 2003, they are still limited to a single task announcement in each round of bidding (Wong et al 2006). On the other hand, an AIR-unit, as an employer, can simultaneously deal with a multi-task by making its several distinct clones which are dedicated to individual tasks.…”

Section: Negotiation Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

r-FrMS: a relation-driven fractal organisation for distributed manufacturing systems

Shin

Mun

Lee

et al. 2009

International Journal of Production Research

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Up-to-date market dynamics and decentralisation have brought about the need of flexible and robust organisational structures for manufacturing resources. To meet the need of such an environment, the manufacturing system should be equipped with an open, reconfigurable and scalable organisational structure. This paper proposes a novel organisational model, referred to as a relation-driven fractal organisation, to meet the requirements. The proposed model applies the concept of a fractal to its organisational structure and adopts a relational pattern between composing entities as a basic building block for organising. In this paper, the existing fractal-like systems involved in manufacturing systems are investigated, and the fractal organisation is derived as their super-ordinate concept. Then, r-FrMS, a relation-driven fractal organisation applied into distributed manufacturing systems, is proposed along with its organising mechanism which adopts employment relations between manufacturing resources as its organising principle.

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Production planning and order acceptance in business to business electronic commerce

Cited by 47 publications

References 17 publications

An agent-based negotiation approach to integrate process planning and scheduling

An agent-based negotiation approach to integrate process planning and scheduling

An agent-based model to support negotiation-based order acceptance in a multi-plant enterprise

r-FrMS: a relation-driven fractal organisation for distributed manufacturing systems

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