Dispatch strategy

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Liam Chiu asked Oct 6, '22 Jeanette F commented Oct 11, '22

Dispatch strategy

Hi

I'm trying to use processflow to implement a FIFO dispatch strategy.

In my case, when any of the three buffers are empty, I want to randomly assign an order to the buffer, and a new order has to wait until the previous one is completely finished before entering.

I would like to know how to set it through itemlist, or any better way. Thanks for your advice. :)

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Jeanette F ♦♦ commented · Oct 11, 2022 at 05:32 PM

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Answer 1 · 2022-10-06T08:54:49Z

Felix Möhlmann answered Oct 6, '22

First off, I think this would be easier if you only create one token per order and write the quantity onto it as a label. Then you could put the queues on a list. Each token first has to pull a queue and then creates the items in it. The token then waits until the queue is queue is empty again before it pushed the queue back on to the list, so the next order can pull it.

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