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This paper is concerned with integrated production, inventory and transportation planning problems directly related to the supply chain management. We establish a Lagrangian based coordination mechanism within the context of the decentralized planning approach. In addition, we demonstrate that dual prices obtained by the described approach might provide enough accuracy in case of sudden changes, such as in a customer's demand, and thus they could assist agents to find new solutions. Computational results show that the proposed mechanism is able to help organizations to facilitate collaboration, improve business agility and meet business goals.
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