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Collaborative Agents Supporting Tactical Planning Activities – An Industrial Application

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Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering ((LNEE,volume 349))

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This paper presents a collaborative agents model for Sales and Operation Planning (S&OP) in industry. We show how an S&OP system can be used in a multi-agent approach considering existing legacy software and how people and software agents interact in a planning environment in a process industry, such as the petrochemical industry. The model helps to describe the process, determine the pre-existing software integrations, define responsibilities, and promote communication and learning. The solution adopted is crucial for a high performance S&OP. It is also important to consider the interaction among human agents and software agents, which are required for its success. The multi-agent system (MAS) paradigm is useful for helping industries handle distributed information sources and interactions between a number of actors and teams. We examine activities of an S&OP in a petrochemical company and how these activities can be more efficiently performed through MAS.

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  1. SENAI CIMATEC, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

    Ana Paula M. Tanajura & Herman Lepikson

  2. Program of Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

    Ana Paula M. Tanajura & Herman Lepikson

  3. NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, 7491, Norway

    Pinar Öztürk

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Tanajura, A.P.M., Öztürk, P., Lepikson, H. (2015). Collaborative Agents Supporting Tactical Planning Activities – An Industrial Application. In: Gen, M., Kim, K., Huang, X., Hiroshi, Y. (eds) Industrial Engineering, Management Science and Applications 2015. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 349. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47200-2_32

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