DEVELOPMENT OF THE CORBA-BASED MULTI-AGENT SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

Based on the concept and requirement of supply chain management in manufacturing enterprises, this paper emphasizes the importance of coordination in supply chain, introduces relative researches, presents a supply chain management framework based on multi-agent theory and its analysis methods in DAI (Distributed Artificial Intelligence), defines the agents'func tionalities, and responsibility and studies the contents, features and solutions of coordinated supply chain. In the end, the paper introduces development method of distributed systems based on CORBA and presents a software architecture to develop a coordination environment based on CORBA and KQML protocols.