Abstract

The present text reports on data acquisition and preparation in a simulation for evaluating a planned truck shuttle operation from a production facility to a logistics centre. Special aspects include the development of time intervals for the provision of finished goods that must be transported to the logistics centre by truck. Furthermore, the text describes how the travel time between the production facility and the logistics centre can be determined using various approaches. Finally, the results demonstrate the impacts that a more detailed consideration of the aforementioned aspects can have, particularly with regard to dynamic truck allocation and production planning.