Conceptual Framework for Knowledge Management Support in Logistics and Supply Chain Simulation
Gaby Neumann · 2007
This paper relates logistics and supply chain modeling and simulation to knowledge flow analysis and knowledge management methodology. Knowledge gained in the course of a simulation project quite often remains in the heads of the people involved in the project. It is not sufficiently externalized because documentation tasks are time-consuming, seen as an add-on to the real problem-solving process and poorly supported. As a result, project-specific knowledge about assumptions, decisions, modeling philosophy, implementation, experiments and results is not kept but lost, even if it is retained by the people involved. As a contribution to overcoming this problem, logistics simulation knowledge is identified and processes of knowledge sharing, creation and acquisition in the course of a logistics simulation project are analyzed. Although closely related to logistics and supply chain simulation, the methods proposed are easily adapted to other application areas of modeling and simulation - and should be applied to them as well