Multi-Agent based Virtual Enterprise Supply Chain Network for Order Management

Information integration of the supply chain for the manufacturing industry is essential because a competent and promising company needs an efficient information system to communicate with its customers, suppliers, and partners within the entire supply chain. Virtual Enterprise (VE) is a network or loose coalition of a variety of value adding services in a supply chain, that unite for a specific period of time for a specific business objective, and disband when the goal is achieved. Virtual enterprise supply chains cut across traditional corporate boundaries and introduce new technical and business opportunities and challenges. The emerging new business strategy in the corporate sector is geared towards maximising the benefits of the relatively narrow windows of opportunities yielded by increasingly volatile global markets, and optimally sharing the risks and resources through collaborations. Actually Virtual Enterprise (VE) is becoming a predominant area of research and technological development. While most researches concentrated on the development of the architecture for virtual, others tried to integrate the use of multi agent system (MAS) in the virtual manufacturing enterprise in which the MAS approach to model the VE would favour the peer to peer relation within the network and support the flexibility required in putting quickly together ne