An agent-based simulation of Amazon’s inbound supply chain
HPC Blog
This article discusses how Amazon simulated its entire US inbound supply chain using agent-based modeling (ABM) and Simudyne's software development kit (SDK) on AWS. It highlights the complexity of Amazon's supply chain network and the need for optimization.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Overview of Amazon's complex inbound supply chain network in the US
- Benefits of using agent-based modeling for supply chain simulation
- Simudyne's SDK and Supply Chain Toolkit for building and visualizing supply chain simulations
- Running the supply chain simulation on AWS, leveraging powerful instances like r6a.32xlarge
- Insights and future plans for simulating the outbound network and exploring AI optimization
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