Financial analysis, fixed and variable costs

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Jhon Alexander SD asked Nov 10, '20 Ben Wilson commented Nov 21, '20

Financial analysis, fixed and variable costs

I need to do a fixed and variable cost analysis. I tried to use financial analysis but it didn't work. I want the payment of the operators to appear as a fixed cost and a variable cost for the maintenance of the racks, which is every month.

payment of operators = $ 1000

rack maintenance = $ 200 each month

16759-batch-picking-model-1-4-autosave-1_1.fsm

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FlexSim 21.0.0

Software Version:

FlexSim 20.2.3

flexsim 20.2.3 warehouse picking financial analysis costs

16759-batch-picking-model-1-4-autosave-1-1.fsm (117.5 KiB)

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Ben Wilson ♦♦ commented · Nov 21, 2020 at 05:34 PM

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Answer 1 · 2020-11-13T22:35:53Z

Jason Lightfoot answered Nov 13, '20 Jason Lightfoot edited Nov 13, '20

There are guidelines in the manual here.

It says that fixed costs only happen once in the model and everything else is per time unit - which depends on your model setting - in your case minutes.

You costs should be entered in the amount per time, so that means $1000/30/1440 for the operators which comes to $0.02315 per minute. The racks are $0.00463.

After a month - that gives $6400.

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