Modeling Analysis and Simulation of a supply chain devoted to support pharmaceutical business retail

The work proposes a study of Logistic and Simulation applied to the pharmaceutics sector in the province of Cosenza (Calabria). In particular it’s focalized on the modelling and analysis of the supply chain supporting the pharmaceutical business retail. The logistic platform is made up by several pharmacies, one distribution centre, several suppliers and two logistic service companies that respectively assure the transportations suppliers-distribution centre and distribution centre-pharmacies. The objective of the work is the analysis of the variation of the mean service level provided to customers due to the potential addition (to the supply chain) of 13 pharmacies located in two different geographic zones. This type of analysis showed itself to be a powerful tool to choose – among the potential new customers – the more reasonable pharmacies from a logistic point of view. To reach this result a discrete event simulator has been realized. After accurate modeling of the supply chain followed by the VVA step (Verification Validation and Accreditation), the simulation runs was planned using Design Of Experiment (DOE) while the ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) has been used to study the statistical output of the simulation models