How to change beginning inventory for every scenario

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Rex R. B asked Jan 6, '20 Braydn T commented Jan 9, '20

How to change beginning inventory for every scenario

Hello everyone,

I have a model that simulates the inventory level of a warehouse. The goal is to assess the performance of setting different safety stock levels. Therefore, I am using Experimenter to simulate multiple safety stock level scenarios.

Here is the flow of the model:

The warehouse stores a beginning inventory equal to the reorder level. Everyday, there is an outflow of randomly-distributed demand. Whenever the warehouse inventory reaches below the reorder level (safety stock + lead time volume), "Whse1 Queue" sends a message to the hub to deliver stocks.

My problem is the following: Is there a way to set different beginning inventory levels on the "Whse1 Beg Source", depending on the scenario? Please see the attached file for you reference.

sample-inventory.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 19.1.0

experimenter warehouse inventory safety stock beginning inventory

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Answer 1 · 2020-01-06T14:45:41Z

Braydn T answered Jan 6, '20 Braydn T commented Jan 9, '20

@Rex R. B

If I understand what you are asking, yes there is a way. You want the quantity box in red to be different.

To do that you can go to the scenarios tab of the experimenter, add a new variable and use the eyedropper to select the quantity box. Then you can change the quantities to whatever you'd like for the scenario you are working on.

Please let us know if this is not what you are looking for!

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Braydn T commented · Jan 09, 2020 at 04:37 PM

@Rex R. B

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