How to Solve the Puzzle? Simulation Support for Component-Based

Logistics process design is one of the major challenges in logistics planning and known as being a complex and complicated problem, since it is subject to a large number of many and diverse influences. The approach of a component-based logistics process design should help to reduce complexity of the design problem and its solution, but especially to overcome the traditional thinking in terms of technical systems instead of focusing on what kind of functionality is really needed to be implemented only. The paper delivers the basic idea of this concept and discusses how simulation and visualization can support this method even though available tools and packages are based on representations of technical components only