Supply Chain Simulation: A System Dynamics Approach for Improving Performance

✍ Scribed by Francisco Campuzano, Josefa Mula (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 115
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Supply Chain Simulation allows readers to practice modeling and simulating a multi-level supply chain. The chapters are a combination of the practical and the theoretical, covering:

• knowledge of simulation methods and techniques,
• the conceptual framework of a typical supply chain,
• the main concepts of system dynamics, and
• a set of practice problems with their corresponding solutions.

The problem set includes illustrations and graphs relating to the simulation results of the Vensim® program, the main code of which is also provided. The examples used are a valuable simulation tool that can be modified and extended according to user requirements.

The objective of Supply Chain Simulation is to meet the demands of supply chain simulation or similar courses taught at the postgraduate level. The “what if” analysis recreates different simulation scenarios to improve the decision-making process in terms of supply chain performance, making the book useful not only for postgraduate students, but also for industrial practitioners.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Introduction to Supply Chain Simulation....Pages 1-10
Conceptual Framework for Supply Chain Simulation....Pages 11-22
Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains....Pages 23-35
System Dynamics: Main Concepts....Pages 37-49
Starting to Model the Supply Chain: Warehouse Management....Pages 51-73
Modeling a Traditional Supply Chain by Using Causal Loop Diagrams....Pages 75-88
Getting into Practice: Modeling an Entire Traditional Supply Chain....Pages 89-104
Back Matter....Pages 105-106

✦ Subjects

Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing;Production/Logistics/Supply Chain Management;Simulation and Modeling;Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity