Paper Info
Title
Supply chain analysis: supply chain analysis: spreadsheet or simulation?
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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.5555/1030453.1030464
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
cost reduction,supply chain analysis tool,whole supply chain,company effort,spreadsheet-based analysis,supply chain case study,different approach,scenario analysis,in-depth analysis,last decade,supply chain
Systems engineering,Simulation,Computer science,Scenario analysis,Supply chain,Cost reduction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
0-7803-7615-3
5
0.63
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Leonardo Chwif1448.40
Marcos Ribeiro Pereira Barretto2838.35
Eduardo Saliby3193.41