Objects of the value stream toolbox > Customer and supplier

Contents

1. Brief description

The Supplier object is a kind of inexhaustible source of products and materials.

2. Procedure and control description

The supplier receives orders. As soon as you have defined the products to be ordered in the delivery list, it delivers the ordered products. The products are rounded up to the number of containers of the product.

3. Parametrization

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Figure 1 - Supplier

Process Parameter	Required	Description
Name	no	Name of the object
Products	no	Products of the object
Shift calendar	no	Allocation of working hours and rest periods
Comment	no	Custom notes and annotations

Product Parameter	Required	Description
Product	yes	Base product
Packaging size	yes	Quantity of base products
Restocking time *	yes	Time interval between product delivery

4. Connection types

See chapter Possible connections to objects.

* in the simulation model, the restocking time refers to the time it takes to provide a container and pass it on to the successor.

If a very long supply time is parametrized for very small container quantities, it should be noted that a bottleneck can already occur at the supplier