Role of intelligent agents in facilitating information flow in Supply Chain Management

International Journal of Logistics Systems and Management

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 229-237

  Sujatha, R ^a  

^a PSG COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Agent enabled supply chain; Information sharing; Intelligent agents

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960815784     PISSN: 17427967     EISSN: 17427975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJLSM.2011.041508     Document Type: Article

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