Dispositive supply web coordination based on multi agent systems

Traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems strongly focus on pl anning internal production and logistics disregarding external effects on u pstream and downstream contractors in the value chain. Supply Chain Managem ent accounts for these effects: but, on the other hand, often fails due to the complexity of global planning of the entire supply network. Our paper p resents existing approaches using so called Multi Agent Systems, keeping th e natural decentralized structure of the problem and locusing on the intera ction protocols of the software agents. We present a framework for the inte gration of these concepts in an open Multi Agent Architecture and discuss d ispositive negotiation protocols based on the propagation of time-dependent supply and demand functions.