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Simulation can be applied to almost any business process within a variety of industry sectors.
Essentially, any process that has a flow of work can be simulated.
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If you can build a flowchart, then the process can probably be simulated. The work flowing through the process could typically be products, documents or even people.
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Some examples of the type of business processes that can be simulated include
Production processes within manufacturing.
Patient flows through hospitals and healthcare systems.
Logisitics and transport networks.
Call flow and activity within call center operations.
Work flow through business networks in service sector organizations.
- A key element of simulation is that it is time based. The simulation runs through a specified time period and predicts how your system or process is currently performing and how it will perform into the future.
Why use Simulation?
To test out new business ideas and to gain a better understanding of your business processes. As a consequence it can improve decision making around that process.
It is so much easier, less costly and less time consuming to use a simulation model to do analysis rather than experimenting with the real system.
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