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Arena Simulation Software has a proven track record of enabling companies to model and evaluate virtually every aspect of their logistics network.  Arena’s flowchart modeling methodology makes it easy to define and communicate the intricacies of complex logistics. 

Arena’s wide-ranging capabilities make it a great solution for logistics optimization.

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Logistics Optimization Software

Logistics touches every part of an enterprise and even goes beyond to include suppliers, carriers and customers. Needless to say, logistics is complicated with many interdependent components. This high degree of complexity is difficult to manage without the use of models that accurately represent the processes and their interactions.

What is Logistics Optimization?

Logistics optimization helps you determine how different factors affect your logistics processes and the transitions between these activities, so you can reduce cost and improve throughput. For example:

  • Can costs and time can be improved with less than truckload (LTL) vs full truckload (FTL) by factoring in the staging process, labor costs, overtime, late fees, and predicted failures?
  • Can costs and time be improved with a barge-by-barge schedule, or a fixed barge schedule?
  • Can efficiency be improved and overall expense reduced if a second bay is added to the warehouse?

Effective optimization requires simulation, and that’s where Arena can help.

Arena is the world's leading discrete event simulation platform, serving the majority of Fortune 100 companies.

Features and Capabilities

Easy-to-Build Logistics Process Flow

  • Arena uses a modeling methodology that enables you to build a logistics process flow in a fast, intuitive and easy-to-learn manner
  • Arena’s drag and drop elements and structures allow you build simulations and visualize results with engaging 2D and 3D animation capabilities that do not require programming assistance

Dashboards for Logistics Optimization 

  • Arena’s built-in dynamic dashboards give you the insights you need to fully optimize logistics
  • Within Arena you can build customized displays of the model information to enable you to better understand what is happening in your process

Common Capabilities

  • JIT operations
  • Evaluate shipping and transportation alternatives
  • Determine the best location for warehousing or other facilities
  • Evaluate dispatching rules
  • Determine facility size requirements
  • Identify bottlenecks in the logistics network
  • Quantify risks
  • Determine warehouse capacity requirements
  • Evaluate warehouse picking strategies
  • Determine labor requirements

Plant Simulation Software

Successful plant operation requires that multiple process operations are coordinated to work at maximum efficiency. If your production line is unbalanced, the result can be increased WIP, higher off-grade material and a reduction in plant throughput. Logistics inefficiencies can also increase costs when production must stop due to resource constraints or available storage capacity. Simulation can help you optimize your plant processes to reduce costs and improve throughput.


What is Plant Simulation?

Plant simulation software allows you to create digital models of your production processes to improve how each process interacts with, transitions to, and is affected by the next process. For example:
  • Manufacturing: model the interactions and variability between systems and resources. Determine inefficiencies and bottlenecks as well as the ways downstream operations can impact production.
  • Packaging: model the effects of adjustments to machine or conveyor speeds, as well as system downtime and maintenance.
  • Logistics: determine how scheduling or resource allocation affects efficiency with receiving, distribution, and warehousing.

Warehouse Simulation Software

Whether you are still trying to determine the location and size of your warehouse, or you need to improve efficiencies and reduce costs at your existing facility, simulation can help.

What is Warehouse Simulation?

Warehouse simulation is a computer-based model of warehouse operations and workflows that can be used to validate, test and improve the performance of your warehouses. Simulations in the virtual world can be used to predict and improve actual performance quickly, cheaply and with lower risk than tests in the real-world. These models enable companies to test the impact of “what if” adjustments prior to selecting or changing any of the following:

  • Geographical location of the warehouse
  • Facility size for capacity requirements, with the ability to scale
  • Floor layout, product organization, and picking strategy to increase throughpu
  • Labor requirements for each shift and for complex processes
  • Sharing or adding equipment and other resources
  • Planning for increased volume

Arena warehouse simulation software is the comprehensive tool to evaluate your warehouse. Not only can you simulate multiple variations within specific processes to determine if equipment or labor are causing the bottleneck, you can also test how efficiencies break down when different processes like picking and palletizing interact.

With no programming experience, you can drag and drop modules into your simulation to model your warehouse, and use Arena’s 2D or 3D visualization tools to view your changes. Models can be run multiple times with different variables to provide information on how to improve processes.


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Simulation Facilitates Manufacturer’s Distribution Transition
Arena® Simulation Software enables apparel company to migrate from a national to regional distribution model without disruption to service.
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