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Networked negotiation platform for manufacturing and logistics integrated planning and control in sme multi-enterprise environment (MAIN-E)

Objective

In many industry sectors (furniture, fashion, capital goods, etc.) with a great presence of SMEs, the supplier/buyer relations tend to be short/medium term ones, making the current Supply Chain Management ISCM) systems economically not viable. The objective of the proposal is to prove the viability of a more agile solution that relies on the latest developments of distributed optimisation end autonomous agents co-operation theories as well as on the most advanced information technologies. The proposal intends to develop a networked negotiation platform for manufacturing and logistics integrated planning and control in a SME multi-enterprise environment. It constitutes a milieu providing at the same time an E-business support for a quick set up of dynamic supply chains networks and an integrated production planning & control support for the related extended manufacturing & logistic operations.

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