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Supply Chain Modeling and Analysis (SCMA)
This project is no longer active.
Head: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol
Contact: Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol (sadeh@cs.cmu.edu)
Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Associated center: CIMDS
Associated lab/group: Intelligent Coordination and Logistics Laboratory
For more information, see this project's homepage.
| Project Description |
Globalization of the economy, rapid changes in legislations and technologies, and increasing customer expectations in terms of costs and services put a premium on the ability of manufacturing companies to quickly and effectively re-engineer their supply chains. This project focuses on the development of a multi-agent simulation framework for supply chain modeling and analysis. This framework aims at providing support for the quantitative analysis of emerging supply chain management practices (e.g., exchange of Available-To-Promise information, new buyer-supplier relationships). It also aims at providing a platform for rapidly developing customized decision support tools to help with supply chain configuration decisions (e.g., where to locate new manufacturing and/or distribution facilities, which supplier or set of suppliers to rely on) and to study the benefits of different supply chain coordination policies (e.g., re-ordering policies, information exchange policies).
An initial testbed has been developed to study tradeoffs associated with the exchange of Available-To-Promise capacity information between manufacturers and their suppliers. A subset of concepts from this framework has also influenced the development of IBM's BPMAT supply chain re-engineering tool, a proprietary tool used by IBM to re-engineer its supply chains and support IBM consultants working on outside supply chain re-engineering projects.
| Past members |
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Name | Title | Email Address |
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David Hildum | Project Scientist | hildum@cs.cmu.edu |
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Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol | Associate Professor, ISRI | sadeh@cs.cmu.edu |
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Stephen Smith | Research Professor | sfs@cs.cmu.edu |
| Publications |
Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.