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AGSOE: Arbeitsgruppe Physik sozio-ökonomischer Systeme

AGSOE 14: Poster Session

AGSOE 14.3: Poster

Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 18:10–20:00, P1B

Dynamics of supply chains under mixed production strategies — •Reik Donner¹, Kathrin Padberg¹, Johannes Höfener², and Dirk Helbing³ — ¹TU Dresden, Andreas-Schubert-Str. 23, 01062 Dresden, Germany — ²MPI-PKS, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden — ³ETH Zürich, Universitätstr. 41, CH-8092 Zürich

We study the dynamics of material flows in supply chains under pull, push and mixed production strategies. For this purpose, a mathematical input-output model of commodity flows is generalized and analyzed in some detail for the case of linear supply chains. In particular, it is investigated under which conditions the effect of instabilities like the Bullwhip effect can be minimized. The presented results allow some new insight into the dynamics of manufacturing systems, which will be of importance for the development of new approaches for production planning and control.