Stepping into 21 century, the more and more modern information technology is applied into enterprises management, such as financial management, office automation, human resources management, sales management and produce planning. Now, in these fields, the level of application in sale management is increasing rapdidly. The distribution management system is exactly the key to help the manager solve the problem confronted during the processes of sales. Although the distribution management system makes the enterprises know about the message from marketing channels timely, and have the ability to have fast reaction and supply the stock continuously., there are many limitation in such system.In fortunately, with the rapid development of information technology, the Multi-agent system has emerged as an important area in Artificial Intelligent. It provides a new way for analyzing and designing distributed open. and complex systems. In this paper, we first introduce the conception of Agent and Multi-agent systems, then, bring forward a new framework of intelligent distribution manegenmet system based on MAS. Finally, we give an example of steel sale corporation and conclude with some possible future directions of MAS research in disturibution management.
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