Supply chain diagnostics with dynamic Bayesian networks

  • Authors:
  • Han-Ying Kao;Chia-Hui Huang;Han-Lin Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Marketing and Distribution Management, Hsuan Chuang University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC;Institute of Information Management, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC;Institute of Information Management, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC

  • Venue:
  • Computers and Industrial Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

This paper proposes a dynamic Bayesian network to represent the cause-and-effect relationships in an industrial supply chain. Based on the Quick Scan, a systematic data analysis and synthesis methodology developed by Naim, Childerhouse, Disney, and Towill (2002). [A supply chain diagnostic methodlogy: Determing the vector of change. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 43, 135-157], a dynamic Bayesian network is employed as a more descriptive mechanism to model the causal relationships in the supply chain. Dynamic Bayesian networks can be utilized as a knowledge base of the reasoning systems where the diagnostic tasks are conducted. We finally solve this reasoning problem with stochastic simulation.