http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/01/05/deeper-into-simulation-part-2-optimizing-resource-utilization/ Bruce Silver's blog on business process management Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:48:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/01/05/deeper-into-simulation-part-2-optimizing-resource-utilization/comment-page-1/#comment-448 BPMS Watch » Announcing the BPMN Training Tue, 06 Feb 2007 22:00:50 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/01/05/deeper-into-simulation-part-2-optimizing-resource-utilization/#comment-448 [...] The third section, Simulation Analysis with BPMN, shows how to do practical performance analysis using BPMN in combination with the modeling tool’s simulation engine.  Simulation isn’t standardized by BPMN, so this part is somewhat tool-dependent, although the principles behind it are not.  We walk through three specific use cases, which I have discussed previously:  cycle time improvement from eliminating handoff delays and other inefficiencies, optimizing resource configuration and utilization, and activity-based costing.  We show you how to use various diagram patterns, how to set up the simulation parameters, and how to customize the simulation output to give meaningful results. [...] [...] The third section, Simulation Analysis with BPMN, shows how to do practical performance analysis using BPMN in combination with the modeling tool’s simulation engine.  Simulation isn’t standardized by BPMN, so this part is somewhat tool-dependent, although the principles behind it are not.  We walk through three specific use cases, which I have discussed previously:  cycle time improvement from eliminating handoff delays and other inefficiencies, optimizing resource configuration and utilization, and activity-based costing.  We show you how to use various diagram patterns, how to set up the simulation parameters, and how to customize the simulation output to give meaningful results. [...]

]]> http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/01/05/deeper-into-simulation-part-2-optimizing-resource-utilization/comment-page-1/#comment-359 BPMS Watch » Deeper Into Simulation, Part 3: Activity Based Costing Sat, 06 Jan 2007 00:10:48 +0000 http://www.brsilver.com/wordpress/2007/01/05/deeper-into-simulation-part-2-optimizing-resource-utilization/#comment-359 [...] The previous discussion leads naturally into simulation use case 3, which deals with Activity Based Costing. A number of users have asked me if simulation provided activity based costing, and I always said yes, since I assumed it could. But it’s not built into the tools at all. This turned out to be a really interesting part of the training to develop. All completely original, since the modeling tool vendors don’t really talk about it (or at least correctly), and the ABC literature doesn’t mention simulation, either. [...] [...] The previous discussion leads naturally into simulation use case 3, which deals with Activity Based Costing. A number of users have asked me if simulation provided activity based costing, and I always said yes, since I assumed it could. But it’s not built into the tools at all. This turned out to be a really interesting part of the training to develop. All completely original, since the modeling tool vendors don’t really talk about it (or at least correctly), and the ABC literature doesn’t mention simulation, either. [...]

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