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The Use of Simulation Software for the Improving the Supply Chain: The Case of Automotive Sector

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The effective decision making in the supply chain automotive can be complex because the number of suppliers and customers who form part of it. For this reason, is necessary the use of tools to help the stakeholder in the selection of better decisions that allows for improving the performance of the supply chain, one of these tools is the simulation. In this paper a system dynamics approach is used to develop a simulation model to evaluate three different scenarios that improve the performance of supply chain automotive.

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This work was supported by the National Council for Science and Technology of Mexico (CONACYT), National Technology of Mexico (TNM), and the Ministry of Public Education in Mexico (SEP) through PRODEP.

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  1. Division of Research and Postgraduate Studies, Instituto Tecnológico de Orizaba, Av. Oriente 9, 852. Col Emiliano Zapata, C.P. 94320, Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico

    Cuauhtémoc Sánchez Ramírez & Giner Alor Hernández

  2. Department of Industrial Engineering, Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, Avenida del Charro, # 450 Norte Colonia Partido Romero, C.P. 32310, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico

    Jorge Luis García Alcaraz

  3. Engineering, Architecture and Design Faculty, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Carretera Transpeninsular Ensenada-Tijuana # 3917, Colonia Playitas, C.P. 22860, Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

    Diego Alfredo Tlapa Mendoza

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Ramírez, C.S., Hernández, G.A., Alcaraz, J.L.G., Mendoza, D.A.T. (2016). The Use of Simulation Software for the Improving the Supply Chain: The Case of Automotive Sector. In: Mejia, J., Munoz, M., Rocha, Á., Calvo-Manzano, J. (eds) Trends and Applications in Software Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 405. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26285-7_18

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