A new approach to simulation modeling of unit-load warehouses

  • Authors:

  • Arda Ceylan;Murat M. Gunal;Agostino G. Bruzzone

  • Affiliations:

  • Institute of Naval Science and Engineering, Turkish Naval Academy (Deniz Harp Okulu), Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey;Institute of Naval Science and Engineering, Turkish Naval Academy (Deniz Harp Okulu), Tuzla, Istanbul, Turkey;DIPTEM University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2012 Symposium on Emerging Applications of M&S in Industry and Academia Symposium
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Warehousing is one of the most important elements of a supply chain. It is common to use analytical and simulation-based operations research techniques in the studies held on this topic. Warehousing systems are complex in their nature and analytical techniques lack modeling high level of system detail. On the other hand, simulation is more convenient to model complex warehouse systems with high level of detail. In this paper we present a new approach for modeling and simulation of unit-load warehouse systems. Our approach includes the use of a discrete event simulation (DES) library and a warehouse class library. We also showed a real application by utilizing our approach.