Percentages in order

[alistair.loweET3GP]

[ FlexSim 25.1.1 ]

How do i set the 15% to be assigned first?

[Matthew_Gillespie · Accepted solution]

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. It's only going to assign one of those two values. There's a 15% chance it assigns the value "Seed" and an 85% chance it assigns the value "Serial".

[alistair.loweET3GP]

I am trying to get the first 15% to be Seed and then the rest to be Serial.

[Matthew_Gillespie]

Then the By Percentage pickoption isn't going to be useful to you. The question is 15% of what?

The simplest way is probably to set this up in an arrivals table. Like if you have 100 items arriving make 2 entries. One with 15 items that get the Seed label and another with 85 items that get the Serial label.

Alternatively you could write a code snippet that keeps track of how many items have arrived and if the number goes above your 15% number then you switch. Something like:

string labelValue = "Seed";
if (current.NumArrivals > 15)
    labelValue = "Serial";
    
item.Type = labelValue;
current.NumArrivals++;

I've attached a sample model with these two approaches.

PercentArrivals.fsm

[alistair.loweET3GP]

Thanks for the help.