2012
EMSS 2012 Proceeding
Development and evaluation of visualization system of global container flow for international manufacturers
Authors: Hisashi Takizawa, Hiromichi Akimoto, Kenji Tanaka, Jing Zhang
Abstract
Because of the increase of the number of world- wide manufacturers especially those have their factories in Asia and major markets in Europe and the US, the lead time of transportation in manufacturers? supply chain is increasing. However, for shippers, status information of their container cargos and container ships are limited. It prevents the shippers from optimizing their logistics operation. Accordingly, the authors have developed a global logistics simulation of containers based on multi-agent method. The developed visualization system enables international manufacturers to support logistics management and comprehend container transportation. The simulation result shows that the proposed system can reduce shippers? logistics cost by 17%.
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