18th ICPR paper: NEGOTIATION IN DISTRIBUTED PRODUCTION PLANNING ENVIRONMENTS

G Lo Nigro (1) , Manfredi Bruccoleri (1) , Giovanni Perrone (1)

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Mass customization and global competition push enterprises to adopt proper business models able to capture all the opportunities arising from emerging competition rules. An increasing number of industrial enterprise distributes its production capacity world wide to achieve lower production costs, lower distribution costs (due to the higher closeness to customers), and deeper knowledge of customer needs. As drawback, coordination of the different production plants and the balance among plants and enterprise goals represent critical issue in the network management. In this context the paper faces with the production planning problem, adopting a traditional hierarchical time based perspective in the analysis of the global process and suggesting a decentralized planning approach to deal with the originated sub tasks related to different time horizons. In particular, the paper suggests a production planning architecture able to highlight relationships among sub tasks' variables in which mechanisms assure consistency among solutions of different planning levels. Moreover the paper proposes negotiation frameworks as effective tool to manage production planning sub-tasks.

Mots clés: Physical Sciences

G Lo Nigro, Manfredi Bruccoleri, Giovanni Perrone. 18th ICPR paper: NEGOTIATION IN DISTRIBUTED PRODUCTION PLANNING ENVIRONMENTS. International Journal of Production Research, 2006, 44 (18-19), pp.3743-3758. ⟨10.1080/00207540600575787⟩. ⟨hal-00512885⟩