One Day Meeting

Issues in Supply Chain Modelling

Wednesday 7th November 2001, 9:30am-4:00pm
Room 4003, Building 4 (Law)
University of Southampton

A Supply Chain is a channel through which value is added to a product or service for delivery to an end user.  Many interested parties are connected together in a supply chain through flows of information, resources, materials, and money.  How can these flows be effectively managed to meet a clients needs?  This was one of the main questions posed in May 2001 at the Southern OR Group hosted event on Supply Chain Techniques for Commercial Benefit at the University of Reading.  Following on from this stimulating meeting, the Simulation Study Group continues the discussion of one aspect of this by considering how modelling and simulation can support the management of a supply chain.  To fuel this discussion, the following issues will be considered:  What are the key strategic issues that should be considered in supply chain management?  What techniques can be used to model these?  What are the emerging technologies that can support supply chain modelling.  There will be ample time during the meeting for informal discussion where attendees will be encouraged to participate in the general debate.

Since this event is an ORS study group meeting there is no charge. Lunch and refreshments are included.  To aid planning, please contact one of the organisers to indicate your intention to attend by 24th October 2001.  For further details of the meeting, please contact Sally Brailsford (Event Chair) or Simon Taylor.  Financial support for travel to the meeting is available through the EPRSC GROUPSIM Technology Programme Network (www.groupsim.com). Applications for funding should be made by email to Simon Taylor (GROUPSIM Chair) indicating why funding is sought. Awards will be made on the basis of budget and need.

If you will require a parking space, please email Sally Brailsford as soon as possible.  Directions to the university and campus maps can be found at here.
 
 
 

Programme
 
 

09:30-09:45 Coffee
Welcome and Introduction
    Sally Brailsford (Southampton University)

09:45-10:30 Issues in Supply Chain Modelling
    Janet Efstathiou (University of Oxford)

10:30-11:15 Logistics Planning using Network Modelling Software
      Jane Parkin (Huddersfield University)

11:15-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:15 Modelling Supply Chain Control Systems - The Case For Discrete Event Simulation
      Doug Love (Aston Business School)

12:15-13:00 Modelling and Simulation of Supply Chains – a Systems Approach
       Mohamed Naim and Stephen Disney (Cardiff University)

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:45 Technological Issues in Supply Chain Modelling
       Simon Taylor (Brunel University)

14:45-15:00 Tea

15:00-15:45 Open Discussion
      Chair: Mike Riley (Southampton University)

15:45-16:00 Close