Cooperative planning in dynamic supply chains

This paper describes an order planning system for dynamic supply-chains, addressing the requirements of a make-to-order business environment. A distributed and decentralised information system, based on an architecture of agents and extensively using the internet, was designed and implemented to provide new and more powerful decision support. The system aims at responding to the basic requirements of cooperativeness, integration and configurability. It was developed under the scope of the CO-OPERATE European Project, and implements the functionality defined in the context of the ‘request feasibility studies for the network’ business solution.