Supply chain simulation: A technological approach for system performance evaluation to supply chain

Modern manufacturing firms need to collaborate to design and produce their products with their business partners, such as vendors, retailers, and distributors. They must review continually their strategies and restructure to simplify their business, fabrication processes, and procedures. This paper proposes a simulation system to support designing such supply chain management operations. The most remarkable characteristics of this simulation is to represent business processes activities, such as planning, purchasing, ordering, and shipping. This paper describes these generic simulation models and application example.