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Arena Simulation Software in Supply Chain

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Arena has a proven track record of enabling companies to model and evaluate everything from global supply chains to warehouses. Arena’s flowchart modeling methodology makes it easy to define and communicate the intricacies of a complex supply chain.

Supply chains are complex and can involve many interdependent facilities, people, and equipment delivering products or services to multiple locations. Managing an efficient supply chain requires integrating supply and demand management by coordinating sourcing, procurement, conversion of raw materials into finished product, and logistics.

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

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What is Supply Chain Optimization?

Supply chain optimization is a computer model of the supply chain that incorporates system interactions, resource requirements and inherent system variability to provide a realistic simulation of the supply chain. This model can be used to test, validate and optimize supply chain performance. The result is companies have a cost-effective means of making the supply chain for their goods and services more efficient. Through these models, the following can be determined:

  • Impact of changing sourcing and manufacturing locations on cost, capacity, and ability to meet customer demand
  • Resource requirements to meet delivery schedules
  • Effect of variation in delivery times and quantities on system operation
  • Impact of currency exchange rates, duty, VAT, and other costs

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

Arena has extensive experience helping companies improve their operations, and can easily handle the volume of information needed to measure performance and optimize the largest supply chain networks. Arena allows supply chain professionals to create models that can be tested and adjusted quickly, which lowers cost, saves time, and decreases the risk often associated with the standard trial-and-error approach.

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

Features and Capabilities

Easy-to-Build Supply Chain Modeling

  • Build a supply chain model in a fast, intuitive and easy-to-learn manner
  • Drag and drop elements and structures allow you build simulations and visualize results
  • Engaging 2D and 3D animation capabilities that do not require programming assistance

Dashboards for Supply Chain Optimization

  • Built-in dynamic dashboards provide the model analysis you need to facilitate supply chain optimization
  • 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 supply chain
  • Quantify risks in the supply chain
  • Determine warehouse capacity requirements
  • Evaluate warehouse picking strategies
  • Determine labor requirements

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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Arena® Simulation Software improves routing and resource capacities to optimize throughput while reducing waste.
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