Integration of a Flat Holonic Form in an HLA Environment

International audienceManagers need to create and sustain internal systems and controls to ensure that their customer focused strategies are being implemented. Companies are currently in a spiral of permanent optimization. Accordingly, many companies turn to their core activity. In this framework, one notices the development of the concept of “industrial partnership”. In this context and to control the customer–supplier relationships (CSR), we proposed a self-organized control model in which all partner entities (customers/suppliers) negotiate to guarantee good quality connections between customers and suppliers. This means meeting customer expectations as closely as possible and respecting supplier capacities. In this proposal, self-organized control is characterized more precisely by an organizational architecture of the flat holonic form type. This flat holonic form is based on the concept of autonomous control entity (ACE). The holonic architecture, the behaviour of an ACE, the interaction mechanisms between ACEs and the self-evaluation supplier process are presented, and then the modelling of ACEs using discrete event system specification (DEVS) is described. An implementation of the simulation of such a system was done via a distributed simulation environment high level architecture (HLA). A case study illustrating the proposed approach is presented

Customers-Suppliers Relationship Management in an Intelligent Supply Chain

International audienceOutsourcing is leading to more and more complex industrial organizations. This can be attributed to the fact that several decisions centres interact. As a consequence, changes in customers-suppliers relationships can be noticed. In recent years, these relations have strongly evolved to lead to better internal management of each partner and a better general performance to satisfy customers. These evolutions created a new approach of the relations between companies, called ‘industrial partnership’, in the form of a network. Networks induce a need at customers-suppliers relation control level. The contribution and participation of each of the partners are thus fundamental to make Supply Chain Management (SCM) a successful project. The control system of each actor partner must thus be adaptable enough to satisfy the production requirements. Our contribution to the improvement of customers-suppliers relationship is a decentralized self-organized control model. In this model, the decision system manages a group of actors’ operations who are in a partnership (part of companies network). In this paper, we, particularly discuss a process for the evaluation of the suppliers network

Another way to manage supply chains: holonic and multicriteria approach

International audienceToday’s suppliers are challenged to deliver quality to their customers. Managers need to create and sustain internal systems and controls to ensure that their customers-focused strategies are being implemented. Many companies increasingly turn to their core activities to improve their reactivity and to manage their costs. This paper proposes an approach for self-organized control of relations between companies in which all the members of a partnership negotiate to guarantee good quality connections between customers and suppliers. Each partner is associated with a decision- making entity named “Autonomous Control Entity” (ACE) through which he can evaluate his performance. The integration of these ACEs into a holonic control system is presented. Operations of an ACE have been modelled through the Discrete EVent system Specification (DEVS) formalism. Then, the validation of such a control system for a self-organized logistic partnership network was done through a distributed High Level Architecture (HLA) simulation environmen

Pilotage holonique auto-organisé de réseaux logistiques (validation par modélisation et simulation distribuée)

L'objectif du travail réalisé est d'améliorer les structures de prise de décision de pilotage des flux de produits d'un réseau logistique par la dynamique des relations Clients/Fournisseurs. Le Système d'Aide à la Décision proposé est fondé sur trois axes complémentaires : - Approche holonique auto-organisée de la prise de décision, obtenue par émergence de la meilleure solution (meilleure réponse à un appel d'offre). En effet, pour décrire notre approche, nous nous appuyons sur l'architecture de référence PROSA, qui permet de spécifier des approches holoniques selon une décomposition en holons de type Product, Resource, Order, et Staff. L'approche est basée sur l'association d'un centre de décision (EPA : Entité de Pilotage Autonome) à chaque partenaire qui lui permettra de s'auto-évaluer face à la réception des appels d'offres. - Evaluation de la performance obtenue, par une approche de type analyse multicritères basée sur la méthode multicritères Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP). - Vérification de la cohérence de la solution globale et validation de l'approche décisionnelle par modélisation-simulation distribuée. Pour cela, chaque EPA a été modélisée selon le formalisme DEVS (Discrète EVent system Spécification) et a été intégrée dans un environnement de simulation distribuée HLA (High Level Architecture). La simulation de l'approche a permis d'illustrer, d'une part, le comportement interne d'une EPA ainsi que ses interactions avec d'autres EPAs (illustration de l'auto organisation), et d'autre part, de mettre en évidence l'intérêt de l'approche proposée.AIX-MARSEILLE3-BU Sc.St Jérô (130552102) / SudocSudocFranceF

Validation of a self organised control system for logistic partnership network by distributed simulation

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Another way to manage a supply chain: holonic and multicriteria approach

International audienceToday’s suppliers are challenged to deliver quality to their customers. Managers need to create and sustain internal systems and controls to ensure that their customers-focused strategies are being implemented. Many companies increasingly turn to their core activities to improve their reactivity and to manage their costs. This paper proposes an approach for self-organized control of relations between companies in which all the members of a partnership negotiate to guarantee good quality connections between customers and suppliers. Each partner is associated with a decision- making entity named “Autonomous Control Entity” (ACE) through which he can evaluate his performance. The integration of these ACEs into a holonic control system is presented. Operations of an ACE have been modelled through the Discrete EVent system Specification (DEVS) formalism. Then, the validation of such a control system for a self-organized logistic partnership network was done through a distributed High Level Architecture (HLA) simulation environmen

Modélisation d’un système de pilotage isoarchique et validation par simulation distribuée via HLA

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Self Organized Control of Partnership Network: Modeling and Validation via Simulation

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