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Hi - I made several changes.

1. Speed up the drawing and inventory creation

• Remove the list (we'll use the Storage System to find pallets instead of boxes).
• Set the Storage System option to virtualize the objects for faster drawing
• Add the Itemcode label to the storage system as indexed (for fast lookup).

2. Limit the picking of Pallets.

• If we create all the pick jobs at once the items will all be unvirtualized and drawing will be slow.
• Create 5 tokens to represent 5 orders and find the pallets for each (All Orders Processing)
• Create a list of Buffers spaces and only create the pick job when there is a buffer space (Order Line Processing)

3. Have the Buffer handle events

• At the model start, in its own Process Flow it pushes the spaces to a list
• When an item enters the Buffer it pushes it to the Buffer Items list
• When an items exists the Buffer it pushes a space back onto Buffer Spaces.

4. Have the operator process one order at a time

• Use the same order number to read the itemcodes from the picking table.
• Create an array of Itemcodes for use in the Pull Buffer Items so that you can say WHERE Itemcode IN puller.Itemcodes.
• Remove a matching itemcode from the array when each item is pulled.

At the moment the model will stop because you're asking it to pick itemcodes for which you have no inventory (36)

Model attached.

reachtrucks_byPallet_jl.fsm