Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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979288 | Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications | 2006 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
To improve their position at the market, many companies concentrate on their core competences and hence cooperate with suppliers and distributors. Thus, between many independent companies strong linkages develop and production and logistics networks emerge. These networks are characterised by permanently increasing complexity, and are nowadays forced to adapt to dynamically changing markets. This factor complicates an enterprise-spreading production planning and control enormously. Therefore, a continuous flow model for production networks will be derived regarding these special logistic problems. Furthermore, phase-synchronisation effects will be presented and their dependencies to the set of network parameters will be investigated.
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Authors
Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Jan Topi Tervo, Michael Freitag,