Performance Simulation and Optimization of Agricultural Supply Chains

Agricultural supply chains management is increasing in recent years, among academics as well as practitioners. In this paper, we present a supply chain simulation study for a real case, with the agricultural manufacture and distribution systems of cooperative-centered in concern. We evaluated the key performance indicator of the whole supply chains by building and simulating 3 present models of agricultural distribution systems. The design alternatives differed in terms of the level of integration and synchronisation between supply chain stages. By adjusting the combination of parameters we specifically optimized the models quantitatively. This article provides a flexible simulation technique which could be widely used in the management system of agricultural circulation and efficiency improving of Chinese agricultural supply chains.