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How to create a base stock model?

Hi everyone,

I am trying to model a base stock policy in Flexsim 2016. However, I don't know how to model the fact that the production of one unit should start if the inventory position is lower than a certain level.

Thanks in advance,

Perrine

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It depends on how you're modelling the situation. If you are counting the stock in say a Rack object, then you can call the content(rackName) command to return the number of items in that rack. You could then use this in an if statement or decision point. If the content of the rack is below a certain level, then send items to a certain processor. Or set up the logic so that the Process will pull items as long as the inventory content is at a certain level. Is this along the lines of what you're looking for?

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Hi, try to see attached model. There are two processors. One generate item 1 and second item 2. Queue "Stock" has two labels with stock of each item. If there stock of item 1 is more than 5 processor 1 stops production of item 1, if the stock of item 1 is less than 2 it starts production...stock-control.fsm


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