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Supporting decisions in real time has been the subject of a number of research efforts. This paper reviews the technology and architecture necessary to create an autonomic supply chain for a real-time enterprise for supply chain systems. The technologies weaved together include knowledge-based event managers, intelligent agents, radio frequency identification (RFID), database and system integration, and enterprise resource planning systems.
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This article is part of the “Handbook on Decision Support Systems” edited by Frada Burstein and Clyde W. Holsapple (2008) Springer.
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O’Leary, D.E. Supporting decisions in real-time enterprises: autonomic supply chain systems. Inf Syst E-Bus Manage 6, 239–255 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10257-008-0086-0
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