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Using Simulation to Investigate Supply Chain Disruptions

In: Supply Chain Risk

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  • Steven A. Melnyk

    (Michigan State University)

  • Alexander Rodrigues
  • Gary L. Ragatz

Abstract

Managers and researchers are coming to realize that Supply Chain Disruptions (SCDs) constitute a real and significant threat – a threat that has to be better understood. However, the challenge facing many researchers is that of developing an understanding of these disruptions, what causes them, what factors moderate or influence the disruptions, and of identifying, and comparing alternative strategies and policies for dealing with such disruptions. This chapter introduces such an approach – computer-based discrete event simulation. Simulation has long been used in Operations Management, Logistics, and Supply Management to study problems such as scheduling (job sequencing, production scheduling, order release, delivery reliability), capacity planning, process design-service, cellular manufacturing, and resource allocation (Shafer and Smunt 2004). It is now being used as a vehicle for studying supply chain related problems (Bowersox and Closs 1989; Levy 1995; Parlar 1997; Ridall et al. 2000; van der Vorst et al. 2000; Holweg and Bicheno 2002; Shafer and Smunt 2004; Terzi and Cavalieri 2004; Venkateswaran and Son 2004; Allwood and Lee 2005).

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  • Steven A. Melnyk & Alexander Rodrigues & Gary L. Ragatz, 2009. "Using Simulation to Investigate Supply Chain Disruptions," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: George A. Zsidisin & Bob Ritchie (ed.), Supply Chain Risk, chapter 7, pages 103-122, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-0-387-79934-6_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-79934-6_7
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    1. Vlajic, Jelena V. & van der Vorst, Jack G.A.J. & Haijema, René, 2012. "A framework for designing robust food supply chains," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 137(1), pages 176-189.
    2. Fraccascia, Luca & Yazan, Devrim Murat & Albino, Vito & Zijm, Henk, 2020. "The role of redundancy in industrial symbiotic business development: A theoretical framework explored by agent-based simulation," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 221(C).
    3. Rana Azghandi & Jacqueline Griffin & Mohammad S. Jalali, 2018. "Minimization of Drug Shortages in Pharmaceutical Supply Chains: A Simulation-Based Analysis of Drug Recall Patterns and Inventory Policies," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2018, pages 1-14, December.
    4. Hatem Elleuch & Wafik Hachicha & Habib Chabchoub, 2014. "A combined approach for supply chain risk management: description and application to a real hospital pharmaceutical case study," Journal of Risk Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(5), pages 641-663, May.

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