Network Analysis of a Supply Chain Management: A Model based Approach
Network Analysis of a Supply Chain Management: A Model based Approach

Author(s): Dominik Vymetal
Subject(s): Economy, Business Economy / Management
Published by: ASERS Publishing
Keywords: SCM; MAREA; multi-agent systems; process mining
Summary/Abstract: For efficient logistics, various forms of Supply Chain Management (SCM) are necessary. The SCM scope and variety has become more and more complicated as the electronic business (e-Business) evolved in a global market. Presented research models a chain of companies including basic social elements embedded in them. To model a supply chain, a generic company and its’ environments are used as a model base. The company is selling products to a set of customers, who try to achieve their sales price targets of the product by means of price negotiations. Using registered sales orders, the company produces products consisting of several sub-products according to the Bill of Material definition. The sub-products needed are purchased at suppliers. The price of needed sub-products is achieved by means of negotiation taking company price targets into consideration. All acting elements of the model are realized as software agents having their own targets and aims. The resulting output of the model is presented in two perspectives generated from the transaction log. The organizational perspective is represented by a simple Petri net showing the transactions and places of the sales and purchase processes. The social network perspective shows the relations among the agents that have been active in the modeled period. Using this way of modeling can help to optimize the behavior of companies involved in the analyzed SCM domain, or even to analyze the global e-Business environment of the analyzed e-Business provider.

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