Simulation Optimisation Methods in Supply Chain Applications: a Review

摘要: T competitiveness and dynamic nature of today’s marketplace is due to rapid advances in information technology, short product life cycles the continuing trend global outsourcing. Managing resulting supply chain networks effectively challenged by high levels uncertainty demand, confl ict objectives, vagueness information, numerous decision variables constraints. With such complexity, optimisation has potential make a signifi cant contribution resolving these challenges. In this paper, literature review – based on more than 100 peer-reviewed articles state-of-the-art simulation-based techniques context management presented. A classifi cation problems that apply simulation–optimisation proposed. The main criteria for selecting optimisers are also identifi ed, which then used develop map techniques. Such provides guidance researchers practitioners proper selection