Port Supply Chain Simulation Model under Interactive Analysis

To probe into special port supply chain and analyze the interaction between ports, this paper establishes a port supply chain simulation model through system dynamics (SD) approach, and then, Simulink tool is adopted for that model. Through the simulation, the affluence of some port’s operation improvement on the other is clearly shown and the profit of ports is changed with interaction. What’s more, it’s proven that some partial efficiency increasing may not make the overall improvement, so supply chain management in whole point is very necessary. That port system dynamics simulation model shows the characteristics of a kind of special supply chain and can be helpful for the actual supply chain management project. © 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of [CEIS 2011]