Simulation for PI-Hub Cross-Docking Robustness

Tarik Chargui (1) , Abdelghani Bekrar (1, 2) , Mohamed Reghioui , Damien Trentesaux (1)

1 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
2 INSA Hauts-De-France - INSA Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Hauts-de-France

Cross-docking is a logistics process which consists in receiving goods through unloading docks and then transferring them to the outgoing docks with almost no storage in between. A new concept named Physical Internet is applied to logistics based on the metaphor of the digital internet to improve the flexibility and synchronization of logistics systems. This paper presents a set of simulation scenarios of a real cross-dock facility of an industrial partner to compare the performances of the cross-dock with those of the PI-hub and to evaluate the contribution of the implementation of Physical Internet in cross-docking facilities. In this paper, two simulation models are proposed to compare performances of a classical cross dock and a PI-hub under the same flow of products and inter-arrival time of inbound and outbound trucks. Several scenarios are presented to test the robustness by changing the synchronization and the inter-arrival time distribution. To compare the performance of the cross-dock facility and the PI-hub, several key performance indicators (KPIs) are considered, such as waiting time, number of trucks waiting, resources usage and cycle time of the products.

Mots clés: Physical internet; Cross-docking; PI-Hub; Robustness; Simulation

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique

Tarik Chargui, Abdelghani Bekrar, Mohamed Reghioui, Damien Trentesaux. Simulation for PI-Hub Cross-Docking Robustness. Borangiu, Trentesaux, Thomas, Cardin. Service Orientation in Holonic and Multi-Agent Manufacturing, 762, Springer International Publishing, pp.317-328, 2018, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-73751-5_24⟩. ⟨hal-03411158⟩