Improving Flow-Based Modeling of Enterprise Systems and Modeling of Custom Warehouse Systems in d3fact

Hendrik Renken, Wilhelm Dangelmaier

2013

Abstract

Due to a restrictive design, current enterprise simulation software has shortcomings when it comes to modeling complex business processes and custom warehouse systems. Often, standard processes are altered to add desired functionality. Also, custom (often complex) warehouse components are created by merging readily available components. Typically, this customization has to be done programmatically, which usually results in error-prone and hard to maintain simulation models. In this paper we present a concept to improve the modeling of complex business processes and warehouse systems. Our flexible design allows the combination of business-processes without any programming. It even allows a process to control several information flows at once. This comes in handy when implementing custom warehouse systems.

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Renken H. and Dangelmaier W. (2013). Improving Flow-Based Modeling of Enterprise Systems and Modeling of Custom Warehouse Systems in d3fact . 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 94-101. DOI: 10.5220/0004431900940101


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@conference{simultech13,
author={Hendrik Renken and Wilhelm Dangelmaier},
title={Improving Flow-Based Modeling of Enterprise Systems and Modeling of Custom Warehouse Systems in d3fact},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2013},
pages={94-101},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004431900940101},
isbn={978-989-8565-69-3},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - Improving Flow-Based Modeling of Enterprise Systems and Modeling of Custom Warehouse Systems in d3fact
SN - 978-989-8565-69-3
AU - Renken H.
AU - Dangelmaier W.
PY - 2013
SP - 94
EP - 101
DO - 10.5220/0004431900940101