A Decision Support System for Supply Chains

DESSCOM (DEcision Support for Supply Chains through Object Models) is a decision support system for supply chain networks to enable strategic, tactical, and operational decision making. This has been developed at the Laboratory for Competitive Manufacturing, Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science. DESSCOM has been successfully used in solving decision problems in a variety of supply chain networks [#!biswasthesis!#]. Figure shows the architecture of the decision support system. The system has two major subsystems.

• A modeling system that facilitates rapid creation of supply chain models at a desired level of abstraction using a library of generic objects
• A decision workbench that can support a wide variety of tools and techniques which could be deployed in supply chain problem solving.

  

Figure: The architecture of DESSCOM