SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SIMULATION TYPES: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Demonstrator in Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut,

2 Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut,

3 Assistant professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut,

4 Professor in Mechanical Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University, 71516 Assiut,

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In today’s global market, it becomes essential for supply chains to adapt powerful management policies. These policies might be verified and validated before its implementation in the real world. Simulation is a powerful effective tool for this purpose, so that, the last decade offered different supply chain simulation types. This paper is concerned with a review of supply chain management (SCM) simulation types in the recent researches. In particular, four SCM simulation types are reviewed, spreadsheet, system dynamics (SD), discrete-event dynamic systems (DEDS), and business games simulation types. The reviewed researches present great interest of SCM researchers in DEDS simulation among the four reviewed simulation types.

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JES. Journal of Engineering Sciences
Volume 36, No 3
May and June 2008
Pages 675-687

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