Wartime industrial logistics information integration: Framework and application in optimizing deployment and formation of military logistics platforms

Abstract

Industrial logistics system is one of the key objects of industrial informatization, and analysis on this system is an important task of industrial information integration. According to the concept and principle of industrial information integration engineering, we present a five-layered framework of wartime industrial logistics information integration, and form an analysis of wartime industrial logistics system from the perspective of industrial information integration. To provide resolutions to the problems of optimizing deployment and formation of resources in wartime industrial logistics system (e.g., military logistics platforms [MLPs]), we conduct a typical application of this framework. As the research objects of the fourth layer, war statistics, mathematical calculations and simulation experiment are designed as the means by which descriptive analysis, predictive analysis and prescriptive analysis at the fifth layer can be implemented, respectively. Accordingly, the battle damage repair efficiency-oriented optimal decisions model of using MLPs are built. Results show that our study forms a systematic procedure for wartime industrial logistics information integration, thus obtaining more decision support and greater reference value for wartime industrial logistics.