AN AGILE SCM SYSTEM BASED ON AGENT AND ONTOLOGY

摘要

To respond to the changing environment, the architecture of the agile SCM system based on Agent and Ontology has been introduced after three definitions in this paper. This architecture includes seven Function Agents. To realize the collaborative production planning, four production Function Agents are established. In this architecture, Ontology is used to define a common vocabulary for agents to communicate with one another, and the market mechanism is adopted to serve as control for interaction among agents. The objective of this paper is to illustrate the architecture of agile SCM system, the better solution to make a collaborative production planning, and the approach how SCM system support the responsiveness, flexibility, and agility.