Journal
COMPUTERS IN INDUSTRY
Volume 52, Issue 2, Pages 147-159Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-3615(03)00086-1
Keywords
information management; product centric approach; customisation; material flow; information flow; item identification
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The management of single-item level information has grown to be one of the greatest challenges of supply network management. The main reasons for this are the increasing product customisation and increasingly complex supply networks. Product customisation adds to the quantity and specificity of product-related information. Current mainstream solutions, based on integrating product information databases, are not suitable for complex, short-term supply networks. This paper presents an approach and a proposed system for managing single-item level information. The approach we call product centric information management is based on centralising information to the individual products. The proposed system uses software agents, peer-to-peer information sharing, and a coding mechanism that utilises the domain names of the Internet. We also review applications of the system in tracking and logistics control. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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