GIS navigator, help in create a distribution order

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Ludovica Pilleri asked Sep 20, '24 Jason Lightfoot answered Sep 20, '24

GIS navigator, help in create a distribution order

hello, I'm working on a distribution model with only a factory where trucks get the items and travel to reach all the destinations to fullfill the orders. I'm using a simple process flow and i'd like to integrate a logic which defines the number of items each truck needs to pick and the destinations to travel to. What do you suggest?Map of orders.fsm

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FlexSim 24.2.0

processs flow orders gis navigator

map-of-orders.fsm (4.3 MiB)

Answer 1 · 2024-09-20T09:30:25Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Sep 20, '24

Again there are many examples on this site of how to have an array/list/table of items that you need to pick up - often the technique will involve using RunSubflow activities that create tokens for each task in the array/list/table, while setting token labels to indicate what needs to be done for each entry.

In your model you're pulling 1 destination, without the quantity to collect from the list, but if you pull many then you will have arrays of destinations you can then use with a runSubflow. This will then introduce the issue of defining a route that is reasonable/optimal. For that you will need some algorithm/solver since ordering the destinations by distance is unlikely to achieve the correct route.

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