A Negotiation Optimization Strategy of Collaborative Procurement with Supply Chain Based on Multi-Agent System

• Main Authors: Chouyong Chen, Chao Xu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2018-01-01
• Series: Mathematical Problems in Engineering
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/4653648

In the process of collaborative procurement, buyers and suppliers are prone to conflict in cooperation due to differences in needs and preferences. Negotiation is a crucial way to resolve the conflict. Aimed at ameliorating the situations of underdeveloped self-adaptive learning effect of current collaborative procurement negotiation, this paper constructs a negotiation model based on multi-agent system and proposes a negotiation optimization strategy combined with machine learning. It provides a novel perspective for the analysis of intelligent SCM. The experimental results suggest that the proposed strategy improves the success rate of self-adaptive learning and joint utility of agents compared with the strategy of single learning machine, and it achieves win-win cooperation between purchasing enterprise and supplier.