With Simulation, you can include the limited availability of resources, such as human resources or technical resources, in the business process. The simulation of business processes provides informative process data if the resources available for individual activities are included in the simulation. Simulation supports the following resource types.
During the simulation, resources are allocated on a first-in-first-out basis, that is, a resource is allocated to the first function that reports a need. The allocation can be influenced by defining the Priority attribute.
Resources are requested only during orientation and processing times, not during static wait time.
If no resources have been allocated to functions, it is assumed that unlimited resources are available for carrying out a function. Accordingly, an unlimited number of functions can be carried out in parallel.
Resources can be modeled in a process model and in an assigned function allocation diagram.