Object-oriented design of a distributed agent-based framework for e-Procurement

Procurement is an important function in any manufacturing organization and it also has strategic business value attached to it. Hence, any improvements in the process would result in tremendous benefits. E-Procurement exploits the Internet and agent technologies to conduct procurement-related proces...

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Published in:Production planning & control 2004-10, Vol.15 (7), p.731-741
Main Authors: Raghavan, N. R. Srinivasa, Prabhu, Maya
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Business process reengineering
Corporate purchasing
Distributed agents
e-Procurement
Electronic commerce
Electronic procurement
multi-attribute auctions
Object oriented programming
Studies
Systems design
UML
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Summary:Procurement is an important function in any manufacturing organization and it also has strategic business value attached to it. Hence, any improvements 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.
ISSN:0953-7287
1366-5871
DOI:10.1080/09537280412331298229