Creating different scenarios for staff shifts

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fenia tseligka asked Sep 28 2016 at 11:04 AM Zahra Z answered Sep 02 2021 at 5:38 PM

Creating different scenarios for staff shifts

How do i model this example of schedule?schedule.png

More precisely, how to change the staff number per day and per hour/shift creating different modelling scenarios using the experiment tool?

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Answer 1 · 2016-09-28T16:46:01Z

Matthew Gillespie answered Sep 28 2016 at 4:46 PM Matthew Gillespie commented Oct 10 2016 at 9:25 PM

There are two experiment variables you might find useful:

Shift Schedule Assignments

This lets you change what shift schedule is assigned to the chosen resource or group per scenario.

Number of Resources in a Group

This lets you change the number of resources that are active in the group. So say you have a group with 5 members, you can use this variable to set the number of active resources to 3 so that 2 of them aren't used.

So you'll want to set up shift schedules to reflect the schedule you desire and then either move people in and out of those schedules using the first option, or assign a group to the schedule and change how many active staff members there are in the group using the second option.

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fenia tseligka commented · Sep 28 2016 at 9:50 PM

@Matthew GillespieThere is a schedule refering to the hours of 0600-1200 Monday till Sunday. To that specific schedule I have assigned group 1 (RN1s). How can I change the staff members only for Mondays for example for the experiment tool?

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ fenia tseligka commented · Sep 30 2016 at 9:14 PM

In that case you need more shift schedules. You could make another schedule that's almost the same, but doesn't have the Monday shift and then use the Shift Schedule Assignment variable to move a staff member to the new shift schedule.

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fenia tseligka commented · Sep 30 2016 at 10:51 PM

@Matthew Gillespie

So, if i want to model different number of staff per shift (let's assume 6-hour-shift each) for every shift and every day, i will be needing 42 schedules and 42 groups, in order to assign every schedule to each one of them?

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ fenia tseligka commented · Oct 05 2016 at 5:26 PM

@cliff.king

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Matthew Gillespie ♦♦ fenia tseligka commented · Oct 10 2016 at 9:25 PM

No, you'd just need each staff member of that group to be on a different schedule. More precisely you'd need to make one schedule for every type of weekly shift schedule. Then you just assign each individual staff member to one of these schedules. You can then use the experimenter to switch the staff members between schedules.

For example, using your schedule.png image I made up shifts for 4 different staff members:

So you'd make a shift schedule for each of the 4 staff members.

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Answer 2 · 2021-09-02T17:38:55Z

Zahra Z answered Sep 02 2021 at 5:38 PM

@Matthew Gillespie

Hi Matthew, i am working on FlexSim 21 version and have a similar question. I did create a new shift schedule for one of the MDs. How do I write the expression for assigning MD2 to this parameter? Also do I have the variable written correctly?

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