To cope with increasing vulnerability, global business especially chemical manufacturing companies need to actively manage (the risk of) disruptive events in their supply chains. This calls for systematic frameworks to guide their efforts. Further, due to the complexity of today's global supply chains, decision making tools are needed to provide support in different stages of the supply chain disruption management process. This paper presents an agent-oriented simulation framework for disruption management in supply chains. This simulation framework provides a flexible modelling and simulation environment for decision makers to experiment with different types of disruptions and disruption management strategies. The application of the simulation model to support decision-making in different steps of the pre- and post-disruption management processes is illustrated using a lube oil supply chain case study.

为了应对日益严重的脆弱性，全球企业，尤其是化学制造公司需要积极管理其供应链中的破坏性事件（风险）。这就需要系统的框架来指导他们的努力。此外，由于当今全球供应链的复杂性，需要决策工具来在供应链中断管理过程的不同阶段提供支持。本文为供应链中的中断管理提出了一个面向代理的仿真框架。该仿真框架为决策者提供了灵活的建模和仿真环境，以试验不同类型的中断和中断管理策略。