Collaborative dynamic scheduling approach in the extended enterprise

This paper presents an approach for dynamic scheduling that is based on the exchange of information and coordination of the production schedules composing a supply chain in order to find an effective global solution. The approach considers three communication systems based on agents: (i) a communication subsystem inside the plants, which handles the internal disruptions of a plant, (ii) an inter-plants communication subsystem, which manages the internal events of a plant that may affect the production schedules of other plants and (iii) a supply chain communication subsystem, which considers the events that can affect suppliers and/or customers. This paper shows some results of a research project that is being funded by Grant PI2008-08 from the Bask Government in Spain.