Simulationsstudie zu Konsolidierungsstrategien für das Bekleidungsmanagement der Bundeswehr

Having the right article in the right place at the right time is a logistical challenge – and can be vital. In this context, the Armed Forces of Germany (Bundeswehr) assess options to make the existing supply chain for protective attire more agile using online-shopping strategies. In this setting, the supply is internal to the organization: this allows for using of different consolidation strategies and applying customers’ risk aversion strategies to the supplier in using preventive sending strategies. To explore different delivery strategies, a high-level simulation model is proposed. Results show that with the applied strategies, the delivery of fitting articles on time can be improved: preventive sending can help to have the right article in place at the time needed, and consolidation helps to reduce the number of packages sent

Containerisierung und container Orchestrierung als high-performance Infrastruktur für Simulationsexperimente

The execution of simulation experiments becomes increasingly resourceintensive, either due to the increasing scale and complexity of the simulation model or the nature of the experiment itself. Popular approaches, like simulation-based optimisation and data farming, require extensive computational resources. Therefore, an appropriate methodology is needed to distribute simulation workloads onto complex computing infrastructures efficiently. Containerisation and container orchestration are promising approaches toward this goal. This paper discusses the requirements needed to utilise containerisation for simulation, gives an example of a container-based computational infrastructure for experimentation, and shows how containerisation and container orchestration benefit simulation execution