"One" a New Tool for Supply Chain Network Optimization and Simulation

Nowadays, in a hotly competitive environment, companies are continuously trying to provide products and/or services to customers faster, cheaper, and better than the competitors do. Managers have learned that they cannot do it alone; rather, they must work on a cooperative basis with other organizations in order to succeed. Although the resulting enterprise networks are more competitive, the tasks for planning, management and optimization are much more difficult and complex. In this paper, we present a newly developed toolbox "ONE" to support decision makers for the assessment, design and improvement of such supply chain networks. The toolbox comprises innovative and user-friendly concepts related to the modeling, simulation and optimization of enterprise networks by additionally taking into account social and environmental impacts as well as uncertainty and risk that are always inherent within modern enterprise networks. 1 CONTEXT AND MOTIVATIONS The global economy and the ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: WSC
• Authors: Hongwei Ding, Lyès Benyoucef, Xiaolan Xie, Carl Hans, Jens Schumacher
• Keywords: Enterprise Network, Modeling And Simulation, Supply Chain Networks, Supply Chains, WSC 2004