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in recent decades, the simultaneous design of a product and its supply chain has become a trend in the manufacturing industry. This approach, requiring massive data sharing, allows different designers to collaborate in order to choose the best product design along with its corresponding supply chain, taking into account cost, quality, and time.
To get a successful collaboration between designers, we need to model communication flow between product and supply chain designers during all product lifecycle. This model must be simple and easy to adopt by any company structure.
In this paper, we present a multi-agent approach that aims to support communication between product and supply chain designers in a simultaneous design .
Unified modeling language (UML) is used to model this approach.
