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In today's global business market place, individual firms no longer compete as independent entities with unique brand names but as integral part of supply chain links. Key to success of any business is satisfying customer's demands on time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-08-05 Nelson Christopher Dzupire , Yaw Nkansah-Gyekye

Agent-based systems have the capability to fuse information from many distributed sources and create better plans faster. This feature makes agent-based systems naturally suitable to address the challenges in Supply Chain Management (SCM).…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Liming Xu , Stephen Mak , Alexandra Brintrup

High responsiveness and economic efficiency are critical objectives in supply chain transportation, both of which are influenced by strategic decisions on shipping mode. An integrated framework combining an efficient simulator with an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Haoyue Bai , Haoyu Wang , Nanxu Gong , Xinyuan Wang , Wangyang Ying , Haifeng Chen , Yanjie Fu

We envision a new era of AI, termed agentic organization, where agents solve complex problems by working collaboratively and concurrently, enabling outcomes beyond individual intelligence. To realize this vision, we introduce asynchronous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Qingxiu Dong , Yaru Hao , Xun Wu , Shaohan Huang , Furu Wei

This paper presents a comprehensive sustainability assessment framework for document intelligence within supply chain operations, centered on agentic artificial intelligence (AI). We address the dual objective of improving automation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Diego Gosmar , Anna Chiara Pallotta , Giovanni Zenezini

To improve decision-making and planning efficiency in back-end centralized redundant supply chains, this paper proposes a decision model integrating deep learning with intelligent particle swarm optimization. A distributed node deployment…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Shiman Zhang , Jinghan Zhou , Zhoufan Yu , Ningai Leng

Manufacturing companies face challenges when it comes to quickly adapting their production control to fluctuating demands or changing requirements. Control approaches that encapsulate production functions as services have shown to be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Aljosha Köcher , Rene Heesch , Niklas Widulle , Anna Nordhausen , Julian Putzke , Alexander Windmann , Oliver Niggemann

Planning, scheduling and dispatching play critical roles in the operations of a supply chain. Their definitions are clearly given through a unified view in this paper. The distinction between planning and scheduling is analyzed from the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-07-11 Kan Wu

Operational decisions in healthcare, logistics, and public policy increasingly involve algorithms that recommend candidate solutions, such as treatment plans, delivery routes, or policy options, while leaving the final choice to human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Michael Lingzhi Li , Shixiang Zhu

Supply chain operations generate vast amounts of operational data; however, critical knowledge such as system usage practices, troubleshooting workflows, and resolution techniques often remains buried within unstructured communications like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yao Zhang , Zaixi Shang , Silpan Patel , Mikel Zuniga

The Internet has changed the way business is conducted in many ways. For example, in the field of procurement, the possibility to directly interact with a trading partner has given rise to new mechanisms in the supply chain management. One…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2010-04-27 Yee Ming Chen

This paper presents data-driven approaches for integrated assortment planning and inventory allocation that significantly improve fulfillment efficiency at JD\,.com, a leading E-commerce company. JD\,.com uses a two-level distribution…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-18 Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Shuo Sun , Yongzhi Qi , Hao Hu , Ningxuan Kang , Jianshen Zhang , Xin Wang , Xiaoming Lin

Modern e-commerce search is evolving to resolve complex user intents. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer strong reasoning, existing LLM-based paradigms face a fundamental blindness-latency dilemma: query rewriting is agnostic to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mengxiang Chen , Zhouwei Zhai , Jin Li

This paper explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) can automate consensus-seeking in supply chain management (SCM), where frequent decisions on problems such as inventory levels and delivery times require coordination among companies.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Valeria Jannelli , Stefan Schoepf , Matthias Bickel , Torbjørn Netland , Alexandra Brintrup

This position paper proposes a fundamental shift in designing code generation models: treating reasoning depth as a controllable resource. Rather than being an incidental byproduct of prompting, we argue that the trade-off between rapid,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zongjie Li , Shuai Wang

Individual business processes have been changing since the Internet was created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the competitive and…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Carlos R. Jaimez-González , Wulfrano A. Luna-Ramírez

The rise of autonomous, AI-driven agents in economic settings raises critical questions about their emergent strategic behavior. This paper investigates these dynamics in the cooperative context of a multi-echelon supply chain, a system…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Soumyadeep Dhar

As network traffic monitoring software for cybersecurity, malware detection, and other critical tasks becomes increasingly automated, the rate of alerts and supporting data gathered, as well as the complexity of the underlying model,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Kartik Talamadupula , Octavian Udrea , Anton Riabov , Anand Ranganathan

Successful supply chain optimization must mitigate imbalances between supply and demand over time. While accurate demand prediction is essential for supply planning, it alone does not suffice. The key to successful supply planning for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Hyung-il Ahn , Young Chol Song , Santiago Olivar , Hershel Mehta , Naveen Tewari

Efficient coordination and planning is essential for large-scale multi-agent systems that collaborate in a shared dynamic environment. Heuristic search methods or learning-based approaches often lack the guarantee on correctness and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Zesen Liu , Meng Guo , Weimin Bao , Zhongkui Li