Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach. Issue 3 (13th January 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mekaouche, Lynda; Ounnar, Fouzia; Pujo, Patrick; Giambiasi, Norbert
• Is Part Of: International journal of logistics systems and management. Volume 5:Issue 3/4(2009)
• Page Start: 396
• Page End: 417
• Publication Date: 2009-01-13
• Subjects: self organised control -- self evaluation -- HMS -- holonic manufacturing systems -- HLA -- high level architecture -- supply chain networks -- supply chain management -- SCM -- simulation; Business logistics -- Periodicals; 658.5005
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1742-7967

Abstract

Many companies increasingly turn to their core activities to improve their reactivity and to manage their costs. The paper propose a self-organised control of relations between companies in which all the members of a partnership negotiate to guarantee good quality connections between customers and suppliers. Each partner is associated with a decision-making entity named Autonomous Control Entity through which he can evaluate his performance. The integration of the ACEs into a holonic control system is presented. The validation of such a control system for a self-organised logistic partnership network was done through a distributed High Level Architecture simulation environment.