Evaluating multi-lateral negotiation policies in manufacturing e-marketplace

CHAPTER VII: IMPLEMENTATION, NUMERICAL EXAMPLES AND TESTS

Strategic Planning in Advanced Manufacturing Systems: a Decision Support System

This chapter presents an innovative approach for assisting entrepreneurs in making long term capacity decisions in Advanced Manufacturing Systems (AMSs). AMSs require high investment costs in manufacturing equipments, human resources and technology knowledge. Such high investments together with the wideness and the variability of the competition scenario contribute to increase the perception of the risk for industrial entrepreneurs especially in SMEs. This problem could be approached by providing the entrepreneur with a Decision Support System (DSS) able to assist her/him in making long term capacity decision in AMS. The DSS proposed in this chapter allows the entrepreneur to plan its produ…

HORIZONTAL CO-OPERATION IN SUPPLY CHAIN IN AN E-MARKET ENVIRONMENT