Hello ARIS Community,
I have a question regarding the cost simulation in ARIS Business Simulator.
Ist there a chance to allocate the costs (e.g. energy costs or other costs) for the whole day, not just for each single activity? I just have cost information for each day, and a drill-down to every activity is nearly impossible. Besides of that, does it make any sense to drill down the energy costs for one PC for every single task? I don't think so :P
Is there a chance to allocate the costs for the entire process in a more general way, maybe just one day?
Thank you very much.
Best Regards!
Markus,
The costing in ARIS Business Simulator is activity based and as far as I know there are no top-down allocation options. May be the solution is to make your calculations with ARIS Business Optimizer and change the rule set as required.
There are many workarounds of course. You can have one parallel activity started by an event with <frequency, daily = "1"> or specific instantiation plan as appropriate. However, costs appear only in the process detailed statistics and are missing in the process cumulative statistics. That might cause some inconvenience.
So far I haven't used simulation experiments for cost calculation but I imagine that could be helpful in your case as well.
I'm curious to learn if there is better solution. Hope some more experienced with simulation to join this discussion.
Regards
Ivo
