Authors:
Christophe Ponsard
1
;
Renaud De Landtsheer
1
;
Gustavo Ospina
1
;
Stephan Printz
2
and
Johann Philipp von Cube
3
Affiliations:
1
CETIC Research Centre, Belgium
;
2
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
;
3
Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology (IPT), Germany
Keyword(s):
Discrete Event Simulation, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement Risks, Risk Management.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Application Domains
;
Discrete-Event Simulation
;
Formal Methods
;
Industrial Processes
;
Plant Simulation
;
Risk Analysis
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
;
Stochastic Modeling and Simulation
Abstract:
Managing risks in supply chains is challenging for most companies, given the globalisation process which
is strengthening the production constraints and also introducing more procurements risks. This is especially
difficult for smaller companies because they generally lack resources to develop a specific expertise or buy
expensive tools. Our research aims at addressing those issues by proposing an easy to use, yet powerful
simulation framework based on Discrete Event Simulation. In our previous work we demonstrated the expressiveness
of our modelling language and the efficiency of our simulation framework. The focus of this paper is
on the usability dimension of the developed tool. We describe the global process driving the company through
the whole risk control process, from identification, modelling, simulation and analysis. We demonstrate our
ideas on a web-based prototype composed on a number of wizards and component supporting the structured
analysis of simulation outcome in dir
ect relation with the risks.
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