Quantifying the value of collaboration in supply chain management through business process simulation

Authors:
Wei Wang;Jin Dong;Hongwei Ding;Changrui Ren;Minmin Qiu
Affiliations:
IBM China Research Lab, Zhongguancun Software Park, Beijing, China;IBM China Research Lab, Zhongguancun Software Park, Beijing, China;IBM China Research Lab, Zhongguancun Software Park, Beijing, China;IBM China Research Lab, Zhongguancun Software Park, Beijing, China;IBM China Research Lab, Zhongguancun Software Park, Beijing, China
Venue:
Winter Simulation Conference
Year:
2009

Citing 5
Cited 0

Dynamic and stochastic models for the allocation of empty containers

Operations Research
Information distortion in a supply chain: the bullwhip effect

Management Science - Special issue on frontier research in manufacturing and logistics
The Value of Information Sharing in a Two-Level Supply Chain

Management Science
Supply Chain Inventory Management and the Value of Shared Information

Management Science
An introduction to IBM general business simulation environment

Proceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In the background of flat world and widely international collaborations, it becomes critical for supply chain members to collaborate with each other. In this paper, we try to quantify the value of collaboration by improving business processes from the simulation point of view. We discuss different kinds of business process improvement manners, create simulation scenarios with or without collaboration, and analyze the simulation results. With the power of business process simulation, we have the capability to evaluate the benefits of collaboration with consideration of details of operations and stochastic characters.