Manufacturers and commercial enterprises are faced with increasing challenges in production and logistics. Growing product variety, shorter delivery times, individual customer demands, global supply chains, more complex technology and fast increasing costs lead to greater demands on the production and logistics processes.
The complexity in production and the dynamics are increasing more and more due to close interlocking of the processes, from production to the customers. This leads to invariably new tasks in the planning and optimisation of resources, logistics systems and supply chain processes. Here static examinations and calculations with average values reach their systematic limits.
Modern logistics processes are shaped by their high dynamics and complexity. For example, questions concerning optimum layout of the conveyor technology cannot be considered in isolation from sequencing and consolidation strategies.
From planning to operation
