Abstract
Companies have been aware of the benefits of developing Cluster Supply Chains (CSCs), and they are spending a great deal of time and money attempting to develop the new business pattern. Yet, the traditional techniques for identifying CSCs have strong theoretical antecedents, but seem to have little traction in the field. We believe this is because the standard techniques fail to capture evolution over time, nor provide useful intervention measures to reach goals. To address these problems, we introduce an agent-based modeling approach to evaluate CSCs. Taking collaborative procurement as research object, our approach is composed of three parts: model construction, model instantiation, and computational experiment. We use the approach to explore the service charging policy problem in collaborative procurement. Three kinds of service charging polices are compared in the same experiment environment. Finally, “Fixed Cost” is identified as the optimal policy under the stable market environment. The case study can help us to understand the workflow of applying the approach, and provide valuable decision support applications to industry.
Highlights
With the development of the global labor division, industrial cluster is becoming an increasingly common economic model, which has a series of advantages in global competition, such as regionalSustainability 2015, 7 adjacency, industrial relevance, flexibility plus specialization, trust-based cooperation, and so on
The new enterprise collaboration mode is known as “Cluster Supply Chains” (CSCs), which integrates the advantages of supply chain and industrial cluster [2]
Collaborative procurement is taken as the research object to show how to apply the method. This whole paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces the related work of this paper; Section 3 proposes a set of agent based models for collaborative procurement; Section 4 gives the instantiation of experiment system for collaborative procurement; Section 5 mainly conducts the computational experiment on collaborative procurement under different service charging policies; Section 6 summarizes the research work and identifies the future research direction
Summary
With the development of the global labor division, industrial cluster is becoming an increasingly common economic model, which has a series of advantages in global competition, such as regional. The new enterprise collaboration mode is known as “Cluster Supply Chains” (CSCs), which integrates the advantages of supply chain and industrial cluster [2]. The related theories are not very mature and perfect, which cannot provide effective means to conduct quantitative analysis and research on CSCs. As a result, it is difficult to design a suitable intervention strategy to guarantee the desired evolution results. Collaborative procurement is taken as the research object to show how to apply the method This whole paper is organized as follows: Section 2 introduces the related work of this paper; Section 3 proposes a set of agent based models for collaborative procurement; Section 4 gives the instantiation of experiment system for collaborative procurement; Section 5 mainly conducts the computational experiment on collaborative procurement under different service charging policies; Section 6 summarizes the research work and identifies the future research direction
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