| Abstract: | Owing to the fast growth of global market, textileand apparel industries which are a typical seasonal businessare facing crucial challenges from both competitors andconsumers. In order to get survived, forming supply chainand utilizing the emerged technology to establish a quickresponse system become an important common practice forenterprises in terms of cost reduction and efficiencyimprovement. This paper presents a multi-ageat-basedintegrated framework for quick response in textile andapparel supply chain. By sharing information andcollaborating among chain partner, the multi-agent systemprovides a promising computing paradigm for quick responsebusiness processes. A prototype based on the proposedframework is implemented using ZEUS toolkit. It presentshow the proposed architecture is being designed to establishcollaborative business environment by providing dynamicquick response processes. |
