NETWORKING CONCEPTION FOR E-MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS

Current extended enterprise resource planning and supply chain management systems do not provide adequate facilities for addressing the problems of unpredictable changes taking place in a global market. The lack of cohesive self-organized coordination mechanisms at the local and global levels does not pro-vide efficient and cost-effective responses on time. This paper addresses the conceptual question of multiplatform integration for designing worldwide network of supply chain and enterprise resource planning systems. The main idea is based on merging two separate approaches, i.e integrated agent-based network models of e-manufacturing systems and virtual field-based information networks of intelligent agents.