Supply Chain Planning

Area of expertise: Supply Chain Management

Improve the performance of the supply chain

Planning tasks in a supply chain define goals, such as on-time delivery, optimal utilisation, short production lead times and low inventories. Unfortunately, most of these objectives conflict with each other. For example, finishing a job on the customer required due date is much easier if the equipment utilisation is low because enough excess capacity is available.

Goal conflicts in SCP

Uncertainties in SCP

Supply Chain Planning deals with mathematical modelling and optimisation of Supply Chain Planning processes on all hierarchical stages. Topics such as network planning, capacity planning, demand planning, distribution planning, and transportation planning and scheduling, are focused in this research field by the use of discrete event simulation, agent based simulation and stochastic modelling.

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