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Supply chain analysis: supply chain analysis: spreadsheet or simulation?

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Leonardo Chwif,

Marcos Ribeiro Pereira Barretto,

Eduardo SalibyAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '02: Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers

Pages 59 - 66

Published: 08 December 2002 Publication History

Abstract

In the last few decades, a lot of company effort has been spent in the optimization of internal efficiency, aiming at cost reduction and competitiveness. Especially over the last decade, there has been a consensus that not only the company, but the whole supply chain in which it fits, is responsible for the success or failure of any business. Therefore, supply chain analysis tools and methodologies have become more and more important. From all tools, spreadsheets are by far the most widely used technique for scenario analysis. Other techniques such as optimization, simulation or both (simulation-optimization) are alternatives for in-depth analysis. While spreadsheet-based analysis is mainly a static-deterministic approach, simulation is a dynamic-stochastic tool. The purpose of this paper is to compare spreadsheet-based and simulation-based tools showing the impacts of using these two different approaches on the analysis of a real (yet simplified) supply chain case study.

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WSC '02: Proceedings of the 34th conference on Winter simulation: exploring new frontiers

December 2002

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ISBN:0780376153

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Jane L. Snowdon
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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IEEE/CS: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers/Computer Society
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Vieira GJúnior O(2005)A conceptual model for the creation of supply chain simulation modelsProceedings of the 37th conference on Winter simulation10.5555/1162708.1163194(2619-2627)Online publication date: 4-Dec-2005
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