topic Re: How to make the customers have randoms demands. in FlexSim Forum

How to make the customers have randoms demands.

wesley850120 — Sat, 14 Aug 2021 15:26:28 GMT

[ FlexSim 20.1.3 ]

Hello everyone!

I have a model that is a two-tier inventory, I want the customer demands to be between 5 to 15, but my model customers are using the combiner to set fixed demand, and I also hope my retailer and distributor have beginning inventory.

in my model :

Rank1 is the retailer

Rank 17 is the distributor

Source3 is the customer generation

Thank you for your help!!

two-tier inventory model.fsm

Re: How to make the customers have randoms demands.

ryan_c10 — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 20:03:31 GMT

Hello @威洋,

I believe I understand your problem. I have attached a model that should solve that issue for you. I did two main things:

I added a trigger to the source that is creating the customers to add a label to each customer on creation. This label is randomly assigned and indicates the number of items they want.
I also added a trigger to the combiner (OnEntry) to "Update Combiner Component List." Then, using a Global Table. I changed the settings to set the quantity of components based on the label on the customer.

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any questions!

Re: How to make the customers have randoms demands.

wesley850120 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 06:05:13 GMT

Hello @Ryan Clark,

Can you share the file or picture of how to add customer labels to source3 triggers? I am not sure how to set it up.

Because I tried your two main modifications, my model will pop up with an error message

thank you for your help!

Re: How to make the customers have randoms demands.

ryan_c10 — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 15:04:09 GMT

Hello @威洋,

I have attached the model that I modified and a picture of the Source3 Trigger window. Hope this helps!

Random Demands.fsm

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