FBM School of Logistics Hosted Sergey Grachev Who Gave a Talk on Multi-agent Systems and Knowledge Bases in Logistics

On September 23, 2019 Faculty of Business and Management hosted Sergey Grachev, Vice-President for Development, ‘Knowledge Genesis’ Group of Companies, who gave a talk on implementation of multi-agent systems and knowledge bases in logistics.

Sergey Grachev spoke about the latest trends in enterprise resources management: difficulties with forecasting changes in demand and supply, decision making process is becoming more time-sensitive, should be more responsive to the current situation and requires constant interaction with clients and suppliers.

The speaker focused on the issues related to overcoming these difficulties:

• enterprise real-time resource management;
• change of paradigm: moving away from a single function optimisation to the balance of interests;
• implementation of multi-agent systems and knowledge base to support management decision making process;
• examples and outcomes of implementation of such systems and development prospects.

Since 2017 Sergey Grachev has been responsible for implementation of intellectual automatic solutions based on artificial intelligence using multi-agent technologies and knowledge bases. He previously worked for various companies, including Nestle, Fortum, Gazpromneft, and was responsible for implementation of complex information systems, portfolio management and digital transformation support.

'Knowledge Genesis' Group of companies and its division ‘Smart Solutions’ are long-term partners with FBM School of Logistics.