Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains
Both modern multi- and intermodal supply chains pose a significant challenge to control and maintain while offering numerous optimization potential. Digital Twins have been proposed to improve supply chains. However, as of today, they are only used for certain parts of the entire supply chain. This...
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| author | Anselm Busse Benno Gerlach Joel Cedric Lengeling Peter Poschmann Johannes Werner Simon Zarnitz |
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| description | Both modern multi- and intermodal supply chains pose a significant challenge to control and maintain while offering numerous optimization potential. Digital Twins have been proposed to improve supply chains. However, as of today, they are only used for certain parts of the entire supply chain. This paper presents an initial framework for a holistic Digital Supply Chain Twin (DSCT) capable of including an entire multimodal supply chain. Such a DSCT promises to enable several improvements all across the supply chain while also be capable of simulating and evaluate several different scenarios for the supply chain. Therefore, the DSCT will not only be able to optimize multi- and intermodal supply chains but also makes them potentially more robust by identifying possible issues early on. This paper discusses the major requirements that such a DSCT must fulfil to be useful and how several information technologies that matured in recent years or are about the mature are the key enablers to fulfil these requirements. Finally, a suggested high-level architecture for such a DSCT is presented as a first step towards the realization of a DSCT, as presented in this work |
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| spelling | doaj.art-01c1dce20b8a4b518f1457d71c3169532023-11-21T17:08:44ZengMDPI AGLogistics2305-62902021-04-01522510.3390/logistics5020025Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply ChainsAnselm Busse0Benno Gerlach1Joel Cedric Lengeling2Peter Poschmann3Johannes Werner4Simon Zarnitz5Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyCompetence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyCompetence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyCompetence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyCompetence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyCompetence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, GermanyBoth modern multi- and intermodal supply chains pose a significant challenge to control and maintain while offering numerous optimization potential. Digital Twins have been proposed to improve supply chains. However, as of today, they are only used for certain parts of the entire supply chain. This paper presents an initial framework for a holistic Digital Supply Chain Twin (DSCT) capable of including an entire multimodal supply chain. Such a DSCT promises to enable several improvements all across the supply chain while also be capable of simulating and evaluate several different scenarios for the supply chain. Therefore, the DSCT will not only be able to optimize multi- and intermodal supply chains but also makes them potentially more robust by identifying possible issues early on. This paper discusses the major requirements that such a DSCT must fulfil to be useful and how several information technologies that matured in recent years or are about the mature are the key enablers to fulfil these requirements. Finally, a suggested high-level architecture for such a DSCT is presented as a first step towards the realization of a DSCT, as presented in this workhttps://www.mdpi.com/2305-6290/5/2/25digital twinsupply chainmultimodalintermodalhinterland |
| spellingShingle | Anselm Busse Benno Gerlach Joel Cedric Lengeling Peter Poschmann Johannes Werner Simon Zarnitz Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains Logistics digital twin supply chain multimodal intermodal hinterland |
| title | Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains |
| title_full | Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains |
| title_fullStr | Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains |
| title_short | Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains |
| title_sort | towards digital twins of multimodal supply chains |
| topic | digital twin supply chain multimodal intermodal hinterland |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2305-6290/5/2/25 |
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