Bestimmung des stochastischen Zeitverhaltens in Supply Chains

Abstract

Stochastic influence has significant impact on all elementary processes of a supply chain. This impact is reflected on variable production, transportation or lead time as well as the inventory of decoupling process. At present, the implication of delivery reliability, lead time, inventory or total cost for the whole supply chain can only be evaluated by using simulation. This work proposes a less time- and cost-consuming numerical approach to provide the re¬liable statistical parameters for the time behaviour.