Multi-agent Simulation-Based Collaborative Inventory Management to Architecture Prefabricated Components

Abstract

With the increasingly developing construction industrialization in China, the management issue of architecture prefabricated components supply chain has been concerned. Because of the particularity of prefabricated architecture, it claims a tight connection among plan design, components production, logistics, site construction, and maintenance. The coordination problems among the supply chain will increase costs of the upstream and downstream enterprises. Based on the collaborative supply logistics theory, multi-Agent modeling, simulation technology, this paper uses multi-Agent platform to simulate interactive among component factories, assembly center and assemblers and seek for the optimal strategy. Firstly, the basic definition of collaborative supply logistics theory will be introduced, then a prefabricated construction supply chain stimulation model will be established. Finally, in the case study, the simulation model will be applied to a real tunnel construction case and provide the basis for decision making management.