A strategic supply chain planning tool for multisite enterprises

In this paper, we present a research program that deals with the development of a strategic supply chain planning tool for the multisite enterprises. This tool, which takes advantage from the integration of optimisation and simulation techniques will enable to model the logistic activities related to this kind of enterprises and will help in strategic decision making. After a brief introduction relating to supply chain management concepts, we propose a review of literature for the problem of design of the supply network. Then, we present a detailed description of the objectives and the architecture of the decision tool that is the main concern of this research program