Why simulateing 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 indicators on configurations impossible in reality, or on quantities 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 based on quantitative data.
• Sizing resources.
Improving enterprise operation
Describing organization operation in order to simulate it can reveal:
• Possible reasons for performance deterioration.
• Simple improvement solutions that have not been envisaged.
Considering organizational changes from valuatedquantitative 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 valuatedquantitative results can be compared.
Sizing resources
The description of the processes can be completed by the description of the means (technology or other) required for them:
• Equipment resources
• Applications
• Application services
An estimate of quantities required can be obtained using simulation.