Authors:
Hendrik Renken
and
Wilhelm Dangelmaier
Affiliation:
University of Paderborn, Germany
Keyword(s):
Material Flow Simulation, Discrete Event Simulation, Material Flow Modeling, Warehouse Modeling.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Application Domains
;
Computer Simulation Techniques
;
Discrete-Event Simulation
;
Domain-Specific Tools
;
Formal Methods
;
Logistics, Traffic and Transportation
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Simulation Tools and Platforms
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.