An Intelligent Approach for Negotiating between chains in Supply Chain Management Systems

TL;DR

This paper presents an intelligent multi-agent system using JADE to facilitate negotiations and supplier selection in supply chain management, aiming to enhance decision-making speed and quality.

Contribution

It introduces a novel multi-agent negotiation framework for supply chains, detailing communication protocols and implementation using JADE.

Findings

Effective agent communication improves negotiation efficiency.

Multi-agent system enhances supplier selection process.

Simulation results demonstrate system viability.

Abstract

Holding commercial negotiations and selecting the best supplier in supply chain management systems are among weaknesses of producers in production process. Therefore, applying intelligent systems may have an effective role in increased speed and improved quality in the selections .This paper introduces a system which tries to trade using multi-agents systems and holding negotiations between any agents. In this system, an intelligent agent is considered for each segment of chains which it tries to send order and receive the response with attendance in negotiation medium and communication with other agents .This paper introduces how to communicate between agents, characteristics of multi-agent and standard registration medium of each agent in the environment. JADE (Java Application Development Environment) was used for implementation and simulation of agents cooperation.