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Nowadays, a modern company operates as a network of companies, not as a single company. These companies are called virtual enterprises, whose main purpose is the maximal fulfilment of costumer needs. Based on this, the paper presents the construction of agile supply chains and as an example it details the model, the algorithms and the applications of a modern electronic freight and warehouse exchange, which is a type of virtual enterprises.
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Grzybowska, K., Kovács, G. (2012). Developing Agile Supply Chains – System Model, Algorithms, Applications. In: Jezic, G., Kusek, M., Nguyen, NT., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Agent and Multi-Agent Systems. Technologies and Applications. KES-AMSTA 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30947-2_62
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