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The theory of network coordination provides a theoretical basis to explain how companies can overcome organizational boundaries and constraints to jointly manage business processes across supply chains. In particular, this paper focuses on Collaborative Scheduling, a collaboration process whereby Supply Chain trading partners activate on-line inter-firm coordination mechanisms to jointly plan key activities, from production and delivery of raw materials to production and delivery of final products to end customers.
By discussing a case study of ceramic tile the paper provides a theoretical framework that contributes to explaining the relations between inter-firm coordination mechanisms and the characteristics of interdependence among the actors involved in the implementation. To automate the coordination process a generalized agent-based framework that uses negotiation to dynamically schedule events is presented. Events can be created dynamically and event may potentially require collaboration or resources from one or more other actors/agents. The allocation of resources to the event will be negotiated iteratively until a compromise is found. The framework consists of a user preference model, an evaluation or utility function, and a negotiation protocol.
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Gómez, P., Rodriguez, R., Franco, R.D., Ortiz, A. (2005). Improving Client Service Reliability in Collaborative Supply Chains: A Mas Scheduler. In: Camarinha-Matos, L.M., Afsarmanesh, H., Ortiz, A. (eds) Collaborative Networks and Their Breeding Environments. PRO-VE 2005. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 186. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-29360-4_24
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