This blog post povides a rough list of simulation tools for SCM, i.e. a list of software used in warehouse design, supply chain management, distribution and transport network design, and manufacturing process and factory simulation. This blog post seeks to…
Smaller job shop still often perform production scheduling manually in Excel or ERP systems. In these cases, the responsible production planner (or scheduler) assigns jobs to machines manually, and determines their sequence as well as possibly also their planned start…
In this blog post I list and briefly describe 38 software solutions that can be used for supply chain simulation. Some of the software solutions listed here are primarily meant for factory or general process simulation but can be applied…
I recently shared a Python simulation modeling example using SimPy in Python. Using SimPy, a discrete-event simulation library available in Python, I modeled a parking lot with a defined amount of slots and a defined car arrival process. In this…
I wanted to expand on my series of SimPy examples for supply chain and manufacturing simulation. In this article I show how you can model a parking lot in Python, using SimPy. SimPy is a discrete-event simulation modeling library in…