Why Simulate a Process?
Simulation offers:
• An alternative viewpoint on the system, seen as a set of resources that must be shared by the different elements.
• Additional credibility supplementing traditional measures.
• Obtaining performance measurements on configurations impossible in reality, or on indicators that cannot be measured.
There are therefore multiple reasons for simulating a process described with HOPEX Business Process Analysis:
• Improving enterprise operation.
• Considering organizational changes from valuated data.
• Defining IT requirements.
Improving enterprise operation
The fact of describing organization operation with a view to its simulation can reveal:
• Possible reasons for performance deterioration.
• Simple improvement solutions that have not been envisaged.
Considering organizational changes from valuated data.
Solutions envisaged to improve enterprise process performance can, by increasing system productivity, highlight weaknesses that extend production deadlines. Simulation enables anticipation of this type of problem: proposed scenarios are tested and valuated results can be compared.
Defining IT requirements
You can add to the process descriptions by describing the information technology means required:
• Equipment resources.
• applications
• Application services.
An estimate of quantities required can be obtained using simulation.