Outsourcer selection and order tracking in a supply chain by mobile agents

Computers and Industrial Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 406-422

  Cheng, Chi Bin ^a   Wang, Che ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHAOYANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Dynamic supply chain; Mobile agents; Order tracking; Outsourcing; Supply chain management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; HYPERTEXT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MACHINING; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MULTI AGENT SYSTEMS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SATELLITES; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; SUPPLY CHAINS;

DYNAMIC SUPPLY CHAIN; MOBILE AGENTS; ORDER TRACKING; OUTSOURCING;

INDUSTRIAL PLANTS;

EID: 50349101032     PISSN: 03608352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cie.2008.01.003     Document Type: Article

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