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Title:

Warehouse Simulation Through Model Configuration

Authors:

Jacques Verriet, Roelof Hamberg, Jurjen Caarls, Bruno van Wijngaarden

Published in:

(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-6-7

27^th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Aalesund, Norway, May 27^th – 30^th, 2013

Citation format:

Jacques Verriet, Roelof Hamberg, Jurjen Caarls, Bruno van Wijngaarden (2013). Warehouse Simulation Through Model Configuration, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0629

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0629

Abstract:

The pre-build development of warehouse systems leads from a specific customer request to a specific customer quotation. This involves a process of configuring a warehouse system using a sequence of steps that contain increasingly more details. Simulation is a helpful tool in analyzing warehouse design alternatives, but setting up a detailed simulation is too expensive early in the development process. We show that configurable simulation models can be applied early in the development process with a good cost/benefit ratio. We present a warehouse simulation model that can be configured with customer and topology information and decision algorithms. We show that the simulation results are similar to those of detailed simulations while a warehouse simulation can be configured with little effort and the simulations run fast enough to support sensitivity analysis and design-space exploration.

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