How to build model that creates token based on model run time?

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Raja Sekaran asked Nov 4, '16 Raja Sekaran commented Nov 5, '16

How to build model that creates token based on model run time?

I want to run the model for 1 year such that each month have different reorder point. How to set reorder point for each month based on model run time?

Thanks in advance.

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FlexSim 16.2.0

model run time

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Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 04, 2016 at 09:46 AM

Send a delayed message. And receiving this message send a new delayed message.

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Raja Sekaran Joerg Vogel commented · Nov 04, 2016 at 10:17 AM

Thank you for your reply. I am running the model from Jan 2016 to Dec 2016

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In that each month have different reorder point so that i want to fix the reorder point for each month. If the model run time changes from one month to another, activity has to to take respective reorder point.

Month	Reorder point
Jan	1008
Feb	823
Mar	935
Apr	1189
May	743
Jun	933
Jul	1261
Aug	1124
Sep	2028
Oct	2311
Nov	950
Dec	1470

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model-run-time.png (4.8 KiB)

Answer 1 · 2016-11-04T13:21:27Z

Brandon Peterson answered Nov 4, '16 Raja Sekaran commented Nov 5, '16

Raja,

The way that I have done this in the past is outlined below:

Create a token at the beginning of every period (1 month for you) using a source with an inter arrival time set to the period time with the arrival at time 0 option checked.
After the source us a delay activity to delay the token until your reorder point for the specific month.

This method will give you a token at the exit of the second delay at the correct reorder time of every month.

I hope this gets you started,

Brandon

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Raja Sekaran commented · Nov 05, 2016 at 09:04 AM

Thanks @Brandon Peterson. I built a sample model based on your approach. Here i am attaching the sample model for your referencereorder-point.fsm. But, it would be better if i write code based on getmodelunit(CURRENT_MONTH_OF_THE_YEAR). Is it possible?

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reorder-point.fsm (22.2 KiB)

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