This paper provides an overview of revenue management characteristics and methods in the semiconductor industry in order to enable greater customer satisfaction and supply chain flexibility while increasing revenue. Due to a significant increase in demand fluctuations in the semiconductor industry, triggered by the bullwhip effect, ...
Simulating Recovery Strategies to Enhance the Resilience of a Semiconductor Supply Network
Enhancing supply chain resilience is of vital importance in today’s business to manage and mitigate the risks, especially in the semiconductor industry challenged with intrinsic long cycle times and short product life-cycles. Transferring production from a primary site to an alternative site after a disaster is one of the strategies to ensure resilience of the supply network. In ...
Towards a Semiconductor Supply Chain Simulation Library (SCSC-SIMLIB)
... widely used technique for analyzing and managing supply chains. Simulation software packages offer standard libraries for selected functions and application areas. However, no commercial or freeware simulation tool proposes building blocks specific to semiconductor manufacturing. Abstract Simulation is a widely used technique for analyzing and managing supply chains. Simulation software packages offer standard libraries for selected functions and application areas. However, no commercial or freeware ...
Impact of time bound constraints and batching on metallization in an opto-semiconductor fab
... effects. Although they are commonly applied in production system control they cause severe logistical challenges. In this paper, we evaluate the effects of time constraints in combination with batching on a real metallization work center of an opto-semiconductor fab. We use simulation to analyze the impact of these production constraints and point out potentials to increase work center performance. We have a closer look at the required planning horizon, the influence of dedication, the capacity ...
Bullwhip Effect in Semiconductor Supply Chain
The supply chain management at Infineon, a large semiconductor manufacturer, wanted to investigate the bullwhip effect in their market in order to decrease expenses and better forecast market behavior. They used AnyLogic software to build a model of a supply chain – from raw materials to the market....