The extended enterprise is a new emerging paradigm in the manufacturing arena. Indeed, global competition is pushing manufacturing enterprises in several industries either to split geographically the production capacity or to work together in supply chain organizations involving several independent entities. This dynamic is involving both big companies, whose organisation is always more and more decentralised and geographically distributed, and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) that are embracing new organisation forms such as the Virtual Enterprise (VE) one. The extended enterprise allows gaining agility, reactive ness, even p- activeness, and, of course, efficiency in the highly dynamic markets of the mass customisation and knowledge based economy era. However, the extended enterprise paradigm scales management complexity both at the strategic and operational level up. This requires new tools for managing the complexity of the extended enterprise. The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enables the possibility to create new and innovative tools for managing the extended enterprise . This book addresses the above introduced issue of the tools for the extended enterprise. More specifically, it presents the results of a research developed under a two years program titled Distributed process and production planning in manufacturing enterprise networks and funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) under the program PRIN2001.
Presentation
Preface
Chapter I: Manufacturing E-Marketplaces: Innovative Tools For The Extended Enterprise; Giovanni Perrone
1. The Extended Enterprise: In Search For Supporting Tools
2. E-Business: A Supporting Technology For The Extended Enterprise
3. Enterprise E-Business Models: The Business-To-Business
3.1 B2B solutions for the extended enterprise
3.2 E-marketplace: a tool for the extended enterprise?
4. Aims And Motivations Of The Research
5. Book Contents And Organization
6. Conclusions And Further Paths Of Research
References
Chapter II: An Agent Based Architecture For Manufacturing E-Marketplaces; Giovanni Perrone and Giovanni Montana
1. The Agent-Based Framework
2. System Architecture
2.1 The system context
3. System Dynamics
3.1 Customer and Supplier Systems interaction
3.2 Order Data Input
3.3 Technological requirements inputting and processing
3.4 MFA - PrPA interaction
4. Conclusions
References
Chapter III: Process Planning In Manufacturing E-Marketplaces; Giovanni Celano, Antonio Costa, Sergio Fichera
1. Introduction
2. The Cad on-Line
2.1 The structure and the activities of the CAD on-line
3. The Process Planner Agent (PPA)
3.1 The structure and the activities of the Process Planner Agent
References
Chapter IV: Manufacturability Models For Manufacturing E-Marketplaces; Lanfranco Imberti and Tullio Tolio
1. Introduction
2. Information Definition
2.1 Type of information
2.2 Information formalization
2.3 Non Linear Process Plan (NLPP)
2.4 Information in the Manufacturing Planner Agent
3. Definition Of Pallet Layout
3.1 Pallet configuration
3.2 Pallet configuration in the Manufacturing Planner Agent
4. Mapping The Process Plan On The Production System
4.1 Splitting: points in favour
4.2 Splitting: drawbacks
4.3 The Process Plan mapping activity of the Manufacturing Planner Agent
5. Conclusion
References
Chapter V: Negotiation Models In Manufacturing E-Marketplaces; Giovanna Lo Nigro, Manfredi Bruccoleri, Umberto La Commare
1. Introduction
2. The Negotiation Process
2.1 Negotiation as a coordination mechanism
2.2 A Negotiation Taxonomy
2.3 Negotiation Performance
3. Negotiation In Manufacturing E-Marketplaces
4. The Proposed Model
4.1 Agent Architecture
4.2 Negotiation dimensions and protocol
4.3 The negotiation decision process
4.4 Negotiation policies
5. Conclusions
References
Chapter VI: Production Planning In E-Marketplaces; Marco Cantamessa and Matteo Gualano
1. Introduction
2. Integrated Production Planning And Order Negotiation
2.1 A taxonomy
2.2 Revenue management
2.3 Demand forecasting
3. Supporting Make-To-Stock Production
4. Supporting MTO/ATO Production
5. The Production Planner Agent
6. Conclusions
References
Chapter VII: Implementation, Numerical Examples And Tests; Giovanni Perrone and Paolo Renna
1. The Agent Based Architecture Implementation
2. The Functionality Test
2.1 Inputting Technological Data
2.2 Inputting Commercial data
2.3 Agent activities
3. Numerical Tests
3.1 Numerical test data
3.2 Numerical test results
4. Conclusions
References
Chapter VIII: Benchmarking Value Added Services In Manufacturing E-Marketplaces; Antonio Grieco and Emanuela Guerriero
1. Introduction And Motivation
2. Problem And Goal Statement
3. The Utility Function Definition
3.1 Due-date Utility Function
3.2 Cost utility Function
3.3 Demand Utility Function
3.4 Supplier profit utility function
4. The Benchmark Models Formulation
4.1 Input Data and decision variables
4.2 Mathematical model formulation - First step
4.3 Mathematical model formulation – Second step
5. The Test Case
5.1 Input data
5.2 The benchmark results
6. Conclusions
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