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Due to increasingly competitive markets, firms constantly search for new ways to lower their operational costs. One of many areas on which companies focus the most, is inventory management. More and more enterprises lay their faith in complex technical solutions which, in their opinion, will give them competitive advantage over their competitors. This paper is dedicated to demonstrate an innovative way to improve a traditional concept in inventory management (Vendor Managed Inventory), by using agent technologies. We propose an approach to utilize intelligent yet highly mobile software agents which, from an economical point of view, cold be both – cheaper and more effective than traditional information systems.
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Januszewski, P., Wieczerzycki, W. (2012). Implementation of Vendor Managed Inventory Concept by Multi-Dimensionally Versioned Software Agents. In: Pan, JS., Chen, SM., Nguyen, N.T. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7196. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28487-8_50
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