  Individual business processes have been changing since the Internet was
created, and they are now oriented towards a more distributed and collaborative
business model, in an e-commerce environment that adapts itself to the
competitive and changing market conditions. This paper presents a multi-agent
system architecture for supply chain management, which explores different
strategies and offers solutions in a distributed e-commerce environment. The
system is designed to support different types of interfaces, which allow
interoperating with other business models already developed. In order to show
how the entire multi-agent system is being developed, the implementation of a
collaborative agent is presented and explained.
