ED Educational - A new academic year awaits us
Every year many interesting research projects are performed using Enterprise Dynamics simulation software at universities all around the world. Discrete event simulation can be applied in a wide range of application areas. To give an overview of all these research areas INCONTROL invites researchers, lectures and students to write about their projects and we publish these articles on the ED Academy website.
In this newsletter you find an article about the research project "Planning of intermodal container terminals with simulation and operations research" conducted at the Institute of Transport Logistics of TU Dortmund, an article from students of the NORDAKADEMIE about Kanban simulation, and an article written by a student of the University of Amsterdam about the theoretical background of the so-called LSP methods used in the Supply Chain Industry to reduce product stock outs. More articles and also teaching material and documentation can be found on the ED Academy website.
ED Educational licenses are full developer licenses of ED Logistics without any limitations, giving lecturers, researchers and students the full power of ED. INCONTROL supports academic users in both research and education. Students and other ED users can go to the ED community forum to get answers to all their ED questions. Lecturers can find new and updated teaching materials on the ED Academy website and researchers can contact us at any time.
Research project: Institute of Transport Logistics, TU Dortmund University
Planning of intermodal container terminals with simulation
 The aim of the research project "Planning of intermodal container terminals with simulation and operations research" is to build a simulation suite which enables the modeling and simulation of material and information flows in a container terminal that is being built in the industrial port of Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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Student project: Hilrike Hildebrandt and Falko Schoenteich, Nordakademie
Kanban-simulation
 Aiming for the optimum of each separate department often does not give the optimum result of all departments combined. Technical simulation is one of todays most advanced tools to obtain detailed information on any process. The Enterprise Dynamics Logistics platform introduces technical tools to simulate companies internal material flow, while providing common process elements which can be specified by certain parameters. Recreating a copy of the processes in ED does not only analyze current material flows but contains the possibility to calculate through a variety of alternatives, on which progressive company decisions can be based. In this project we designed a new atom called a “Kanban Switch” to make it easier to model the material flow of a Kanban-managed system.
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Student project: Ioannis Goniadis, University of Amsterdam
Extending the theoretical background of a common SCM practice
Despite their practical importance, not much theoretical research has been done on Lateral Shipment policies (LSPs). LSP methods are extensively used in the Supply Chain Industry to reduce product stock outs. Essentially a Lateral Shipment involves redistributing stock among retailers instead of making emergency orders to the warehouse. The use of efficient LSPs can reduce the cost of emergency replenishments and also prevent stock outs that lead to loss of sales and customer dissatisfaction.
In this project I suggest a new Hybrid LSP policy. I implemented several LSP policies in an ED model to analyze and compare the results. The results show that the Hybrid policy over performs the others.
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