The Direction Map

Logistics industry’s prime business driver is in Designing dynamic transportation, warehousing and logistics operations. The success of Logistics industry is right product, at the right place, in the right quantity at the right time, and at optimized cost. Though it looks like an everyday function, this often gets coupled with delays due to lack of planning & connectivity in multi-modal form. The complexity gets multitude if the geographical area of operation is vast with cross connection for reachability.

One can be contended that these are anyway dealt by a logistics professional effectively with their copious years of experience in handling critical issues. But the need of the hour is to carry these increasing entanglements in a more intelligent way, which are:

Aligning the wheels of Logistics

Logistics industry can now rely on proven technology for their everyday operations. Axcend along with Siemens PLM Software provides Technology Solution for the Logistics Industry to make “informed” decisions based on “real-time data”.

The Plant Simulation Solution helps to create realistic simulation models of dynamic warehousing and logistics operations, enables industries to evaluate the characteristics

and performance of design alternatives long before they are implemented in real-life processes, thereby minimizing rework.

The use of plant simulation can be realized in:

Supply Chain Optimization

• Daily production and distribution planning
• Demand planning and forecasting
• Sequencing & Scheduling
• Warehousing and transportation planning

Warehouse Planning

• Warehouse Dimensioning & Structuring (storage racks, layout and lift trucks)
• Order-Pick & Place
• Time Aspects-Access Time, Parts per minute

Transportation

• Distribution Routing
• Supply chain management- How many & What products can be delivered
• Transportation between suppliers and receiving inventory
• Material Flow Management

Benefits of plant simulation in Logistics

• Reduced time for designing warehousing and logistics operations
• Optimal utilization of resources
• “What-if” analysis and evaluation of scenarios
• Varying Control rules -Visualization, animation of operations & performance
• Best way to communicate design alternatives and performance

Reference Cases Worldwide

CTI Luxemburg, Dürr, Eisenmann ,German Railroad, Hoermann, i+o, iSILOG,MAN Logistics,psb,    PPI,SSI Schaefer Noell, SimPlan, TBA, Wimm Bill Done