Reference Modeling of an IT-Based Logistics System

Both the logistics as well as the production management have to face challenging requirements nowadays. Not only evolutions in markets and new organizational structures induce important both systems and methods adaptations, but especially the enhanced application of information and communication technologies along the worldwide distributed value creation chain results in a sustainable paradigmatic change. While in the field of production an already field-tested concept, the production system approach exists to meet the various demands, a similar concept is lacking in the area of IT-based Logistics. The given resemblances between the two disciplines favor a transfer of concept by reference modeling of an IT-based Logistics System depending on the production system framework.