Logistics 4.0 - A challenge for simulattion

Technological innovation and requirements of modern production are leading to a significant transformation of logistics. Cyber-physical systems are introduced as an integrating concept for improving information flow from execution to decision systems and vice versa. Accompanied by decision and information systems with an increasing degree of autonomy, new challenges arise in modelling and implementing autonomous logistics, i.e., Logistics 4.0. Thus, sophisticated simulation approaches are required, capable of representing both: material flow and automation systems as well as autonomous software systems and human actors. This paper aims at discussing two integrating approaches to simulate decision makers and logistic processes in the context of Logistics 4.0.