When you have completed
modeling a business process, you can use ActiveVOS Designer to simulate running
the process. Process model simulation allows you to perform impact analysis using "what-if" type scenarios to
predict resource utilization, cost and other process KPIs and goals. By making slight adjustments to parameter values such as arrival rates or
resources, bottlenecks and resource-contention can be discovered and suitable alternatives explored.
To ensure that you get meaningful results from your simulations,
review your model for completeness and accuracy before you simulate it. You can
use model validation to ensure that your
process model is syntactically correct.
First, create a simulation project and model
resources.
You can also specify additional simulation properties such as arrival rates, resource requirement for each activity, and probability for distribution gateway.
· Specifying
simulation properties
In addition to the default metrics (process time, process cost, resource
utilization and task waiting time), you can also define additional metrics,
known as KPI (Key Performance Indicators).
· Specifying KPI and KPI variables