Towards Digital Twins of Multimodal Supply Chains

Anselm Busse, Benno Gerlach, Joel Cedric Lengeling, Peter Poschmann, Johannes Werner and Simon Zarnitz
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Anselm Busse: Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Benno Gerlach: Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Joel Cedric Lengeling: Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Peter Poschmann: Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Johannes Werner: Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Simon Zarnitz: Competence Center for Logistic & IT-Systems (LogIT), Technische Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany

Logistics, 2021, vol. 5, issue 2, 1-12

Abstract: 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

Keywords: digital twin; supply chain; multimodal; intermodal; hinterland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L8 L80 L81 L86 L87 L9 L90 L91 L92 L93 L98 L99 M1 M10 M11 M16 M19 R4 R40 R41 R49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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