Resource Optimization by Simulation Technique in Food Logistics

Any activity that receives inputs and convert them to outputs can be considered as a process. Essentially the same model equations are used in the theory of chemical, biochemical, nuclear, mechanical, or other process engineering. The goal of our researcher group has been to identify the processes, a network of processes, process variables and process equations in food logistics. In our paper we introduce how process building, simulation run and optimization can be carried out in a Food Distribution Centre with a message-based discrete event simulation software. We identify the parameters of the general equations of the discrete event models, with two corresponding examples. We also introduce how simulation can work as a decision supporting tool in the hand of company management, and how can a wrong decision affect the extent of air pollution coming out from cooling vehicles.