Hello everybody,
I am trying to model the number of Purchase Orders (PO) received in a company per month. Each PO can arrive any day in a 30-day period, and it could have a random size of items (material) that range from 2 to 22. I used the inter-arrival time (Batch processing) to mimic this behavior so that I could get at one event one PO of random size between 2 – 22 items in a cycle of 30 days.
Then, the next step I am trying to mimic is moving each PO of a different size from the queue into a combiner (keeping size intact), so they can travel together to the subsequent processes. Besides, in the same combiner, I would like to assign a specific process time to each PO, depending on its size. To combine all items, I know there is a trigger "on entry" (Update combiner component list) that can be used. However, I haven't found a way to make it work. Likewise, I'm struggling to assign the Process Time depending on the PO size. So I built a table for this purpose. However, still having issues with it.
I will appreciate any comment or insight on how to make it work. Maybe, there is an easy or different way to solve it. Thank you.
I didn't set up the "crate" source inter-arrival time yet, as I wasn't entirely sure what the desired interval is. In your screenshot you have the source set up to create a batch every 15 days on average. Though from your description it sounds more like you want to create one batch per month at a random point during that month. That behaviour would be easier to realise with a Date Time Source in Process Flow.
