A Distributed Simulation Model of the Maritime Logistics in an Iron Ore Supply Chain Management

Afonso C. Medina, Luis G. Nardin, Newton N. Pereira, Rui C. Botter, Jaime S. Sichman

2013

Abstract

Supply chain management (SCM) has increased its importance in the last decades, accordingly demanding new approaches to support its decision making processes. Simulation has been advised as an adequate approach for fulfilling such demand. However, develop monolithic simulation models representing the whole supply chain can be costly and time consuming. In the iron ore supply chain in which the seaports have the same features, the use of generic models and distributed simulation may be a real alternative in order to reduce the development time and costs. This paper presents a distributed simulation model of the maritime logistics in an iron ore supply chain applied to support fleet management decisions. Such model was used to perform an experiment in order to determine the maximum possible cargo volume supported by a ship fleet.

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Medina A., Nardin L., Pereira N., Botter R. and Sichman J. (2013). A Distributed Simulation Model of the Maritime Logistics in an Iron Ore Supply Chain Management . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-8565-69-3, pages 453-460. DOI: 10.5220/0004488504530460


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@conference{simultech13,
author={Afonso C. Medina and Luis G. Nardin and Newton N. Pereira and Rui C. Botter and Jaime S. Sichman},
title={A Distributed Simulation Model of the Maritime Logistics in an Iron Ore Supply Chain Management},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2013},
pages={453-460},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004488504530460},
isbn={978-989-8565-69-3},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - A Distributed Simulation Model of the Maritime Logistics in an Iron Ore Supply Chain Management
SN - 978-989-8565-69-3
AU - Medina A.
AU - Nardin L.
AU - Pereira N.
AU - Botter R.
AU - Sichman J.
PY - 2013
SP - 453
EP - 460
DO - 10.5220/0004488504530460