Engineering and Evaluation of Process Alternatives in Tactical Logistics Planning

Michael Glöckner, Stefan Mutke, André Ludwig

2015

Abstract

The objective of tactical planning in logistics is the engineering and evaluation of processes within a given set of possible alternatives. Due to outsourcing and a division of labor, a high number of participants, available services and thus possible process alternatives arises within logistics networks. The additional wide range of service description and annotation methods result in a complex planning process. In order to support planning, a semi-automated approach is presented in this paper that is based on a combined catalog and construction system (for engineering) and a generic simulation approach (for evaluation) that are able to handle the variety of description and annotation methods. The basic concepts are presented and afterward associated by a model-driven approach in order to connect them and make them compatible to work with each other. Finally, a method is developed to foster a semi-automated engineering and evaluation of process alternatives.

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Glöckner M., Mutke S. and Ludwig A. (2015). Engineering and Evaluation of Process Alternatives in Tactical Logistics Planning . In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-097-0, pages 166-176. DOI: 10.5220/0005377801660176


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@conference{iceis15,
author={Michael Glöckner and Stefan Mutke and André Ludwig},
title={Engineering and Evaluation of Process Alternatives in Tactical Logistics Planning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2015},
pages={166-176},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005377801660176},
isbn={978-989-758-097-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Engineering and Evaluation of Process Alternatives in Tactical Logistics Planning
SN - 978-989-758-097-0
AU - Glöckner M.
AU - Mutke S.
AU - Ludwig A.
PY - 2015
SP - 166
EP - 176
DO - 10.5220/0005377801660176