Supply chain modeling: past, present and future
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Simulation in the supply chain context: a survey
Computers in Industry
Supply chain management simulation: a prototype object-oriented supply chain simulation framework
Proceedings of the 35th conference on Winter simulation: driving innovation
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Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience - Grid Performance
SISCO: an object-oriented supply chain simulation system
Decision Support Systems
An object-oriented framework for simulating multi-echelon inventory systems
Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation
An object-oriented framework for simulating full truckload transportation networks
Proceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come
A break in the clouds: towards a cloud definition
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
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This paper presents a Cloud Computing Architecture For Supply Chain Network Simulation (CCAFSCNS). The structure and elements of the CCAFSCNS as well as the relations among elements are introduced. The purpose of the architecture is to facilitate the distributed simulation of large-scale multi-echelon supply chains with an arborescent structure. The simulator in the CCAFSCNS permits the user to specify the network structure, the inventory stocking policies and demand characteristics so that supply chain performance can be estimated (e.g. average inventory on hand, average fill rates, average backorders, etc.) for each stock-keeping-unit. A prototype system that implements the CCAFSCNS is presented and illustrated with three example use cases. In addition, this paper discusses the time issues associated with the cloud computing solution and shows that the cloud computing solution can significantly shorten the simulation time.