Analysis of Enterprise Model Using System Dynamics: A Case of Production-Inventory System

摘要

Enterprise modeling methodology supports capturing processes, activities, and functions of a manufacturing enterprise. Enterprise Model (EM) is the process of conceptual abstraction of enterprise functionality, business data, information channels, and triggering events. Most of the present EM modeling frameworks are open process modeling architectures which are thought of a detailed comprehensive informative data structure. The System Dynamics (SD) model captures the causal relationships among the variables and develops the feedback structure of the processes. SD analyzes and understands the dynamic behavior of the manufacturing enterprise by incorporating the time delays and draws the various policies to improve the system performance. In this paper, the integration of EM and SD methodologies to analyze qualitatively and quantitatively the process and information structures to design new policies and understand the dynamics of a manufacturing enterprise is studied.