You are the industrial engineer for a 200-person firm that manufactures backpacks. Your firm has never used simulation software before. You believe that you could justify the purchase of the software by conducting one study per month, which results in an average savings of $3,000 per study. The studies would be company wide analyzing inventory, material handling, and warehousing problems, to name a few.
The firm’s senior executives strongly endorse your proposal and want you to bring in recommendations on the three software packages, Witness 12, Simprocess and Arena simulation software. For which they will make more in-depth analyses. You need to make a comparison of the features of the