An Agent Oriented Architecture to Supply Integration in ERP Systems

One of the most important aspects expected from ERP systems is to integrate various operations existing in administrative, financial, commercial, human resources, and production departments of the consumer organization. Also, it is often needed to integrate the new ERP system with the organization legacy systems when implementing the ERP package in the organization. Without relying on an appropriate software architecture to realize the required integration, ERP implementation processes become error prone and time consuming; in some cases, the ERP implementation may even encounters serious risks. In this paper, we propose a new architecture that is based on the agent oriented vision and supplies the integration expected from ERP systems using several independent but cooperator agents. Besides integration which is the main issue of this paper, the presented architecture will address some aspects of intelligence and learning capabilities existing in ERP systems

• Hassan Haghighi
• Sajad Ghorbani
• Maryam Mohebati
• Mohammad Mahdi Javanmard

• enterprise resource planning
• software architecture
• agent oriented architecture
• integration
• intelligence
• learning.

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