How to make the customers have randoms demands.

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威洋 asked Aug 14, '21 Ryan Clark commented Aug 17, '21

How to make the customers have randoms demands.

Hello everyone!

I have a model that is a two-tier inventory, I want the customer demands to be between 5 to 15, but my model customers are using the combiner to set fixed demand, and I also hope my retailer and distributor have beginning inventory.

in my model :

Rank1 is the retailer

Rank 17 is the distributor

Source3 is the customer generation

Thank you for your help!!

two-tier inventory model.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.1.3

flexsim 20.1.3 inventory combiner problem

two-tier-inventory-model.fsm (299.5 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2021-08-16T20:03:31Z

Ryan Clark answered Aug 16, '21 Ryan Clark commented Aug 17, '21

Hello @威洋,

I believe I understand your problem. I have attached a model that should solve that issue for you. I did two main things:

I added a trigger to the source that is creating the customers to add a label to each customer on creation. This label is randomly assigned and indicates the number of items they want.
I also added a trigger to the combiner (OnEntry) to "Update Combiner Component List." Then, using a Global Table. I changed the settings to set the quantity of components based on the label on the customer.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions!

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