Raghavan, Srinivasa NR and Prabhu, Maya (2004) Object-oriented design of a distributed agent-based framework for e-Procurement. In: Production Planning & Control, 15 (7). pp. 731-741.
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Abstract
Procurement is an important function in any manufacturing organizationand it also has strategic business value attached to it. Hence, anyimprovements in the process would result in tremendous benefits. E-Procurement exploits the Internet and agent technologies to conduct procurement-related processes. In this paper, we design and develop a software agent-based framework for a typical e-Procurement process by decomposing it into three business processes: e-Negotiations, reverse auctions and e-Settlement. The artefacts of the system for each of the three business processes have been designed and developed using Unified Modeling Language (UML). A prototype of one of the processes, viz.reverse auction, has also been implemented.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Publication: | Production Planning & Control |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis Group |
Additional Information: | The copyright of this article belongs to Taylor & Francis Group. |
Keywords: | Distributed agents;multi-attribute auctions;e-Procurement; UML |
Department/Centre: | Division of Interdisciplinary Sciences > Management Studies |
Date Deposited: | 10 Jan 2005 |
Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2012 07:07 |
URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/2529 |
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