Distributed Approaches to Supply Chain Simulation

The field of Supply Chain Management (SCM ) is experiencing rapid strides in the use Industry 4.0 technologies and conceptualization new supply chain configurations for online retail, sustainable green chains, Circular Economy. Thus, there an increasing impetus to simulation techniques such as discrete-event simulation, agent-based hybrid context SCM. In conventional underlying constituents system like manufacturing, distribution, logistics processes are often modelled executed a single model. Unlike this approach, distributed (DSCS) enables coordinated execution models using specialist software. To understand current state-of-the-art DSCS, paper presents methodological review categorization literature DSCS framework-based approach. Through study over 130 articles, we report on motivation modelling techniques, computing middleware, its advantages future agenda, also limitations trade-offs that may be associated with adoption Internet-of-Things Cloud Computing will ensure availability both data decision-making, which likely enable data-driven future. This aims inform organizational stakeholders, researchers practitioners, systems developers software vendors, state-of-the art development applied approaches.