Computational Experiment Approach to Controlled Evolution of Procurement Pattern in Cluster Supply Chain
School of Computer Science and Technology, Henan Polytechnic University, Jiaozuo 454000, China
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Sustainability 2015, 7(2), 1516-1541; https://doi.org/10.3390/su7021516
Received: 23 October 2014
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Accepted: 26 January 2015
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Published: 30 January 2015
(This article belongs to the Section Economic and Business Aspects of Sustainability)
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.
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Keywords:
Cluster Supply Chains (CSCs); procurement pattern; controlled evolution; agent-based modeling; computational experiment
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Xue, X.; Wang, S.; Lu, B. Computational Experiment Approach to Controlled Evolution of Procurement Pattern in Cluster Supply Chain. Sustainability 2015, 7, 1516-1541. https://doi.org/10.3390/su7021516
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Xue X, Wang S, Lu B. Computational Experiment Approach to Controlled Evolution of Procurement Pattern in Cluster Supply Chain. Sustainability. 2015; 7(2):1516-1541. https://doi.org/10.3390/su7021516
Chicago/Turabian StyleXue, Xiao, Shufang Wang, and Baoyun Lu. 2015. "Computational Experiment Approach to Controlled Evolution of Procurement Pattern in Cluster Supply Chain" Sustainability 7, no. 2: 1516-1541. https://doi.org/10.3390/su7021516
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