Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach

Lynda Mekaouche (1) , Fouzia Ounnar (1) , Patrick Pujo (1) , Norbert Giambiasi (1)

1 LSIS - Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Information et des Systèmes

Today’s suppliers are challenged to deliver quality to their customers. Managers need to create and sustain internal systems and controls to ensure that their customers-focused strategies are being implemented. Many companies increasingly turn to their core activities to improve their reactivity and to manage their costs. This paper proposes an approach for self-organized control of relations between companies in which all the members of a partnership negotiate to guarantee good quality connections between customers and suppliers. Each partner is associated with a decision- making entity named “Autonomous Control Entity” (ACE) through which he can evaluate his performance. The integration of these ACEs into a holonic control system is presented. Operations of an ACE have been modelled through the Discrete EVent system Specification (DEVS) formalism. Then, the validation of such a control system for a self-organized logistic partnership network was done through a distributed High Level Architecture (HLA) simulation environment

Mots clés: Supply Chain Network; High Level Architecture (HLA); Holonic Manufacturing System (HMS); Self Evaluation; Self Organized Control

Domaines: Automatique

Lynda Mekaouche, Fouzia Ounnar, Patrick Pujo, Norbert Giambiasi. Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach. International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management, 2009, ⟨10.1504/IJLSM.2009.022504⟩. ⟨hal-01207486⟩