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Fourth meeting of the SIMULTRA project in Zaragoza

Fourth meeting of the SIMULTRA project in Zaragoza

On 16 and 17 May, the fourth transnational meeting of the Erasmus + KA2 project was held at the headquarters of the CIFPA (Zaragoza) SIMULTRA. The project faces the final phase in which the six simulation tools are already completed. It is the elaboration of the technical and didactic manuals and the linkage with the units of competence corresponding to the professional qualifications that are simulated in each tool.

The assistants representing the seven partners in the project have presented the final version of the respective simulators that are reported below:

  • Supply Chain Management Module (University of Antwerp): It simulates all the costs related to the transport of a container, starting from the Chinese port of Shanghai and destined to the port of Antwerp.
  • Port Operations Module (University of Antwerp): The simulator allows to plan and organize all the resources (human) and equipment (fixed and self-propelled cranes) necessary for the management of a ship that arrives at the wharf of the port of Antwerp.
  • Intermodal platform Management Module (Poliedra + ITL + CePIM): Coach of container reception operations by rail and its exchange for road transport.
  • Warehouse Logistics Management Module (Novadevs + CIFPA): It faithfully plays a warehouse management system (WMS – Warehouse management Software), which allows the entry of data related to the load units (pallets and packages) and the related products received and stored in the Store.
  • Road Transport Management Module (Association for the development of the FP in transport – AFT): It allows to plan and organize a road transport mission, to evaluate the costs, to coordinate the drivers according to the driving time and the distance of travel, taking into account the commitment Expected for the company's fleet of vehicles.
  • Customs Practices Module (Poliedra + ITL + CePIM): It replicates the process of exchange of information and communications, the preparation and dispatch of customs documents related to a whole process of importing goods from an extra-European country to a community country.

The last meeting and final presentation of the project will take place in Parma on the 24th, 25th and 26th of September 2019.