Developing simulation components for supply chain modelling

Modeling supply chains is a pre-requisite for any supply chain improvement initiative. However, modeling supply chains is generally a complex and time consuming task. One way of working around this issue is to have re-usable pre-defined components that represent typical activities in supply chains. The paper presents the application of this principle to the modeling of e-business processes and analyses how the approach can be extended to supply chains. A new methodological approach is presented for the development of static (templates) and dynamic (components) re-usable simulation models. The research contributes to the knowledge of components and re-use theory in simulation and gives practitioners mapping guidelines and offers a way of breaking the barrier for the use of simulation

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