AGENT-BASED SUPPLY CHAIN SIMULATION: TOWARDS AN ORGANIZATION-ORIENTED METHODOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK
Karam Mustapha, Erwan Tranvouez, Bernard Espinasse, Alain Ferrarini, Lsis Umr Cnrs, Domaine Universitaire de Saint-Jérôme · 2010
The Supply Chain (SC) organizational structure, and related management policies, is an important fac- tor that can be adjusted to improve the SC performance, which consequently has to be taken into account in the SC modeling and simulation. In the context of an agent-based SC simulation, this paper addresses a new methodological framework, organizationally oriented, which permits modeling and simulation of such SC organizational aspects, al- lowing observables of different levels of details while reproducing the SC behavior according to desired observables. This methodological framework is structured according to two main abstraction levels, a conceptual level and an op- erational level. At the conceptual level, a Conceptual Role Organizational Model (CROM) is produced, and then re- fined into a Conceptual Agent Organizational Model (CAOM). At operational level, CAOM model is translated into an OPerational Agent Model (OPAM) which will be implemented and simulated in a specific agent based software archi- tecture briefly introduced in this paper.