Containerization

New Transportation Feature in Supply

Chain Guru 5.0
 New Features
• New behaviors allow users to carefully track
individual asset utilization during simulation
• Containerization allows modeling multiple
shipment steps, such as placing product on a
pallet, and then shipping the pallet on a truck
Reference
• SimServer Release Notes: 1.0.12.115
– Aggregate Container
• Used to load shipping items into a container or package as specified by the
Transportation Asset Table
• Asset must be listed as “Container” in the Asset Table
• Use Link to Lane to transfer the container to the next step/ lane in the shipment
process
• The next lane can either continue containerization or begin the movement process
– Disaggregate Container
• Used to unload shipping items from a container or package as specified by the
Transportation Asset Table
• Asset must be listed as “Container” in the Asset Table
• Used on modes associated with the actual lane of transportation
• Can use multiple disaggregate modes- such as moving items onto a pallet and then
into a contianer
 Containers in Supply Chain Guru
• A container asset must be listed as type
“container” in the Transportation Assets Table
• In the Transportation Policies Table, the asset
must be associated with the appropriate policy
– To load a container, use Aggregate Container
– To unload a container, use Disaggregate Container
• Each site that receives the container of product
must be listed as a lane for both the container
and product
 Container as an Asset
• Listed in the Transportation Assets Table
– An asset can be filled by quantity, weight or volume
– If you set the fill level as 0, then the asset is considered
full as soon as it has any product in it
– Asset weight is the weight of the actual asset or container
– Asset volume is the external volume of the asset, not the
cubic capacity
– There is an Infinite number of assets (INF) as default
• To create assets as needed during simulation, set the number of
units to INF
 Container Details
• In the Transportation Policies Table
– Ability to set times and costs for Aggregate Policy
• Shipment Load Charge
• Unit Load Charge
• Shipment Load Time
• Unit Load Time
– Ability to set time and costs for Disaggregate Policy
• Shipment Unload Charge
• Unit Unload Charge
• Shipment Unload Time
• Unit Unload Time
 Containerization Example Model
• Depicts a 2 Step Shipping Process
– An MFG will make a product, load it onto a pallet, load the
pallet into a Milvan (large metal shiping container), load the
Milvan onto a train and ship to a DC_1
– DC_1 will unload the Milvan from the railcar, unload the pallet
from the milvan and ship the pallet to DC_2 by a truck
– DC_2 will unload the pallet from the truck, take the product
off the pallet, and ship the individual product to the customer
• The last slide shows the proper way to set up the
Transportation Policies Table to model the above
scenario
 Model: Containerization 2-Steps

Make Product A
Load Product onto Pallet
Load Pallet into Milvan Unload Milvan Unload Pallet

Ship Product
MFG Ship Milvan by Train DC Ship Pallet by Truck DC CZ
by Truck
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 Containerization Assumptions
• Each pallet takes 10 Product
• Each Milvan takes 10 pallets/ 100 products
• Each train takes 5 Milvan/ 50 pallets/ 500
products

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 2 Container Process

• For each lane, each container asset must be loaded, unloaded, and moved
• Activities on MFG – DC_1 Lane (Milvan shipped via Rail)
– Product A loaded on a pallet
– Pallet loaded into a Milvan
– Milvan ships to DC_1 on a train
– Milvan taken off the train
– Pallet is taken out of the Milvan resulting in Product A being delivered to DC_1
• Activities on DC_1 – DC_2 Lane(Pallet shipped via truck)
– Product A loaded onto pallet
– Pallet ships to DC_2 on a truck
– Pallet taken off truck resulting in Product A being delivered to DC_2
• Activities on DC_2 – CZ_1 Lane (Product shipped via truck)
– Product A loaded onto a truck and shipped to CZ_1

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