ABSTRACT
This book presents various aspects of simulation. The main emphasis has been on manufacturing and supply chains. Simulation has been widely used, especially in the manufacturing sector, most likely due to the fact that manufacturing activities lie at the heart of all business activities. Thus, the manufacturing sector receives the main attention of both practitioners and researchers around the world. Supply chains are a relatively newer concept than manufacturing concepts. Manufacturing concepts are very traditional concepts, whereas supply chains have been realized for a long time, although not as long as manufacturing. We all know that supply chains are an integrated collection of business organizations that are linked together by any kind of business activities. Examples of such business organizations may be suppliers, manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers, retailers, and customers. These business organizations were always present in the business world, but the way or view of imagining them as a collection of business organizations connected in the form of a chain is quite different and known as a supply chain. The concept of a supply chain is so demanding because business organizations today are all interdependent on one another and no business organization can expect to survive without cooperation and collaboration with the neighboring echelons, in this rapidly changing dynamically competitive business world.
