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Mbius, Belgian consultant in supply chain and business trials management, start with five partners the Eclipsproject. Targets of the consortium is artifi cile intelligence in to bring in the management of the supply chain. The project has comes a budget of 3.5 million Euros, of which two million from the sixth frameworkprogramma of the European Union.

The Belgian software-integrator Loqutus is the partner that finally for the software will must see to. The university of Riga and the French Eurodecision see to for the predicting models. The two other participants will test everything. The project, that is in the spring of 2006 started, will three year last. The software will be made and tested in the course by 2007.

ERP-MODULES FOR EACH STAGE OF LIFE VAN A PRODUCT
The project goes self concentrate on the three phases that a product typically goes through. For the beginning and the end of the cycle, Eclips want to make predicting software, intelligently managed become and commit remain sit so that the supplies certainly not with remains. For the maturiteitsfase, the partners want to optimize the planning of the supply chain, so that all stages geared be in the production to each other. As its smaller bufferstocks possible.

According to Hendrik Vanmaele, founder and CEO of Mbius, makes the changing economy the necessarily ERP now also to foresee of artifi cile intelligence: 'Because supply and demand now world-wide are, become liver times of materials longer, through which orders before must be placed. Also the life span of products shortens and become products further gediversifieerd through which about it are more articles to stockeren. 'It will thus skilful be predicting software to have by the launch of a new product.'

Traditional predictions its according to Mbius not arranged by the introduction of a complete new product. And manuele predictions are also rather unreliable, because saleslui are rather optimistic about their future sale. The Eclips-project makes now plans for predicting software, based on typologien of product introductions.

The university of Riga has done here all studies around and will see to for the artifi cile intelligence. The French Eurodecision goes that translate into workable models for the supply chain. Also for a matuur product is the management of the supply chain sometimes capricious.

The whip effect is an economic order that stilts that small swings in the question of the consumer uitvergroot become by each step in the production process. That results in large swings in the orders of retailers and wholesalers. That swings yet are worsened in the orders that the producers place by their suppliers.