Supply chain simulation tools and techniques: a survey
Supply chain simulation tools and techniques: a survey
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供应链模拟工具和技术：调查
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10.1504/ijspm.2005.007116
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2005
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J. Kleijnen
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本文的主要贡献是双重的：•它调查了供应链管理的不同类型的模拟•它讨论了几个方法问题。这些不同类型的模拟是电子表格模拟、系统动力学、离散事件模拟和商业游戏。应该应用哪种模拟类型，取决于模型要回答的管理问题的类型。方法学问题涉及验证和验证，敏感性，优化和鲁棒性分析。这种敏感性分析产生了大型模拟模型中真正重要因素的短名单，这些模型有（比如说）100个因素。鲁棒性分析优化了管理层可控的重要因素，同时考虑了重要的不可控环境因素产生的噪声。各种方法的问题，说明了一个案例研究涉及在瑞典移动通信行业的供应链模拟。一般来说，模拟是重要的，因为它可以支持供应链管理带来的效益的量化。
The main contribution of this paper is twofold: • it surveys different types of simulation for supply chain management • it discusses several methodological issues. These different types of simulation are spreadsheet simulation, system dynamics, discrete-event simulation and business games. Which simulation type should be applied, depends on the type of managerial question to be answered by the model. The methodological issues concern validation and verification, sensitivity, optimisation, and robustness analyses. This sensitivity analysis yields a shortlist of the truly important factors in large simulation models with (say) a hundred factors. The robustness analysis optimises the important factors controllable by management, while accounting for the noise created by the important non-controllable, environmental factors. The various methodological issues are illustrated by a case study involving the simulation of a supply chain in the mobile communications industry in Sweden. In general, simulation is important because it may support the quantification of the benefits resulting from supply chain management.