Research on Mobile Agent System for Agile Supply Chain Management

Today’s competition between companies has been turned into the competition between their supply chains. To satisfy the rapidly changing demand in global market, Supply Chain Management (SCM) must be agile and flexible enough. In agile SCM, some intelligent activities, such as negotiation, decision and collaboration, have become the “bottleneck” to improve its performance. This paper explored the application of Mobile Agent (MA) to deal with the intelligent activities in SCM and thereof improve its agile capability. First, a mobile agent-based agile SCM work model was presented, and then the development of mobile agent and its application in that SCM were discussed. Finally, the mobile agent system for agile SCM was described by the case of flower trading. It can deal with the trading processes intelligently and automatically.