Model, Simulate and Measure the Impact of Your Supply Chain

Next week SUPSI will be in Rhodes, at the International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, to show one of the S-MC-S project results. Rhodes is a very nice place and the conference is a very good occasion to present how we are putting together many little pieces of the big puzzle within the project. We will present a paper about the supply chain modeling and simulation tool which brings us to the very heart of the project concept that is supporting concurrent design of a mass customized solution space while controlling in real-time its sustainability performance.

To support this holistic approach we have developed an integrated tools landscape. Obviously, designing for mass customization while taking care of the sustainability of the entire supply chain means the collection of enormous amounts of data, which must happen during the design phase. Taking care of the sustainability performance after completing the design simply is too late to consider any meaningful change. Our tools landscape is a set of new tools that integrate seamlessly with those the company already has and uses.

At APMS 2012 our focus is on the supply chain. We will present a tool, that we have been developing, to support you in:

• modeling your supply chain efficiently dealing with the adjustable product physical structure and the complexity of handling customized Lot Size One orders;
• simulating its behavior acting as a decision support platform that enables analysis of what-if situations in order to compare alternative supply chains;
• measuring the sustainability impact on the 40 indicators developed in the project so far.

Our paper will be presented by Marino Alge on the 25^th September during the Manufacturing and Supply Chain in a Mass Customization Environment session. Hope to see you there.