To remain competitive in today's global market, manufacturing organisations must be able to respond to unpredictable changes that occur in the market rapidly and cost-effectively. To facilitate such responsiveness, this paper presents an agent-based approach that would enable manufacturers to...

With the increasing importance of supply-chain operations on manufacturing successes, an interest for OEM manufacturers is to optimally configure their supply chains to meet customer demand with minimum cost. While a completely dynamic supply chain, where best combination of resources is found...

This paper proposes a model and solution method for coordinating integrated production and inventory cycles in a whole manufacturing supply chain involving reverse logistics for multiple items with finite horizon period. A whole manufacturing supply chain involving reverse logistic consists of...