This paper presents a toolset for modelling and analysing logistic networks. The toolset includes a graphical user interface
accommodating a “Process Chains” view. It supports model analysis by a variety of methods including simulative, algebraic
and numerical techniques. An object-based, hierarchical structure helps to keep track of large models. The hierarchy employs
the notion of function units which may include subordinate function units, where function units provide services to their
environments that are internally accomplished by calling services of subordinate function units. This point of view is very
much along the structures found in real world organisations. We describe and analyse a model of a supply chain to demonstrate
the capabilities of the toolset.
Keywords Process Chains - E-Business - E-Commerce - Simulation - Queueing Networks - Generalised Stochastic Petri Nets
This research was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft as part of the Collaborative Research Centre “Modelling
of large logistic networks” (559).