Assessment of Smart Supply Chain Production Floor Based on the Inspection of Final Products: A Simulation-Based Study

Smart supply chain refers to the use of emerging technologies to enhance productivity and efficiency by lowering costs and delivering the product within a short time. In the healthcare industry, a smart supply chain improves the management of flow of medicines, monitoring all operations of the production floor and other healthcare services from manufacturer to patients. Production of medicines is a very sensitive process as a small mismanagement may result in the loss of many human lives. So, ensuring maximum inspection at the end of production is very important. The queue performance of any materials highly impacts the productivity of a production floor. This chapter formulates the single-server queuing models and provides a performance evaluation. The performance for “Single-Server Finite Queue Length Infinite Queue Population Model” is most desirable where the final products have to wait for less time in the queue (approximately 55.65%) and reduces the queue length by approximately 57.68%. Based on the findings of the queue performance, an ARENA-based simulation has been illustrated to visualize the productivity of the production floor considering the impact of the final products queue. The simulation result shows that the implementation of the finding from the assessment of the queue performance increases the output by 5.7 times compared to the present condition.