Collaborative Information System for Managing the Supply Chain: Architecture Based on a Multi Agent System

Faced with new constraints of their environment, industries are forcedto join together in collective entities and collaborate with theirpartners. these companies have realized the importance ofcollaboration between companies and have begun to adopt newpatterns of behavior to improve their productivity, profitability andflexibility during market requests. indeed, the collaboration betweenfirms has become a major strategic choice. companies have begun tothink of how to cooperate, a new form of management must bedeveloped to ensure coordination and information’s sharing, in realtime, between different stakeholders in the supply chain; suppliers,customers, subcontractors and carriers, etc. faced with these issues,we truly believe that it is important to build a new information system;this one have to be modern, efficient and flexible in order to optimizeand control the flow of information between supply chain actors. theapproach presented in this paper is considered among the works thataim to propose solutions related to information systems based onmulti-agent systems, in order to ensure coordination between servicesof various partners, sharing and traceability of information.