Hello,
I have a question regarding the grouping of single activities. My goal is to implement the times and costs into every single activity in my event-driven process chain. Right now I just have the times and costs for several activities. To make it clearer I give a short example:
activity1 --> activity2 --> activity3 --> activity4 --> activity5
I don't have specific, individual time and cost information for EVERY activity, just for this little group of activities. Is it possible to create one logic group of these activities and implement the cost and time information for all these activities? Like "the activities 1 to 5 have an average processing time of 3 minutes and average total costs of 100 Dollar". The problem is that my company cannot determine the details for every single activity.
I hope you know what I mean :-) Thanks!
Markus,
There are many ways to solve this and the choice will depend on whether you are going to simulate you process or not. The easiest way is to substitute activities 1-5 with one "grouping" activity in your "main" EPC and maintain times and costs there. Then you assign to the "groupin" activity a new EPC (remember to surround it with events and place their occurrences in the new EPC) where you model your detailed activities 1 to 5 w/o specific time and cost information.
Regards
Ivo
Dear Ivo,
yes, I definitely want to simulate the process. Does your tutorial fit to the process simulation too?
I already thought about your idea, like to create a subprocess in more detail and just to assign the costs and times to the more general process. But maybe there's another way how to solve this problem, because I want to leave the model in detail, but just want to simulate the more general way.
Then you have to skip you assigned process:
If you select "Assigned processes, up to assignment level" > 0 then the simulation ignores the time and cost of your "grouping" activity. Alternatively, the assigned process will be ignored.
If you need to run the simulation through you detailed activities, then you can select the appropriate distribution for times so that the collective variation range is the same as in the "grouping" activity in order to meet your average processing time estimation.
Regards
Ivo
Hello Ivo,
Thank you very much for your very detailed reply. I am currently facing one problem:
I would like to do the process simulation with two seperate processes. The 2nd process starts with the same event the 1st process ends with. They're both connected and when I set up a time frame for the simulation it perfectly works.
But if I activate the simulation feature "Exit simulation when all processes are completed", the simulation runs through the 1st process, which is correct, but stops at the first activity of the 2nd process. That is strange because it shows me that the connction between the two processes works because the starting event in the 2nd process is triggered, but it currently stops at the first activity after it.
I don't know the problem, I tried everything but I can't get it work!
Thank you very much for your help!
