How can simulation help in supply chain development?
Juha-Matti LehtonenJan HolmströmPublished in: APMS (1999)
Keyphrases
- supply chain
- discrete event simulation
- supply chain management
- lead time
- capacity planning
- operating costs
- inventory management
- supplier selection
- quantity discount
- multiagent based simulation
- bullwhip effect
- decision making
- service level
- global economy
- inventory control
- market demand
- joint replenishment
- product life cycle
- distribution centers
- economic order quantity
- manufacturing companies
- safety stock
- pricing model
- cost savings
- rfid technology
- dynamic programming