Comparative evaluation of supply chain management strategies: a simulation approach

AbstraEt Supply chah management has become one of the most important sources of competitive advantage in different indusmes. For years, researchers have investigated the various processes within supply chain. There has been an increasing attention placed on perfomancc, design and analysis of supply chain. However, the-apply chain is a complex model so it is difficult to analyze the performance of a supply chain philosophically. To evaluate the control mechanism for a supply chain, simulation is one of the effective methods. There are five common supply chain models built up in this paper. From the simulation results, various performance measures such as hansportation cost, resources utihzakion, inventory level, and order cycle time can be calculated.