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• Improvement Launchpad

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I am a big fan of Data Managerand Simulation and Aggregation.The AS-IS and TO-BE can bemapped and simulations runagainst these. The business case is then in place, when you go to senior managements withsuggestions for improvement.

Mark Hanson, ManagementSystems AdvisorBalfour Beatty Services

Examples of simulation in daily life

1. Weather forecast

2. City and urban planning

3. Traffic light sequencing

4. Automotive industry

5. Flight

6. Marine

7. Military

8. Finance

9. Sales

10.Economics

11.Satellite navigation

12.Biometrics

• Simulation of business processes helps in

understanding, analysing, and designing processes. With

the use of simulation the (re)designed processes can be

evaluated and compared.

- Provide quantitative estimates of the impact that a

process design is likely to have on performance and

quantitatively supported choice for the best design to be

made.(K Tumey )

• Aggregation – to gather into a whole.

What is Simulation & Aggregation?

• Predict off-design performance of existing processes to

identify and mitigate possible problems e.g. bottlenecks

• Determine how making modifications in one part of your

existing process affects other processes

• Optimising efficiency in processes during design of future

state (To Be) processes

• Develop risk mitigation

Why use simulation in BPM ?

It’s a lot cheaper to:

S&A from Seabed Activities

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50 75 20

14525

100

75

22025E2E=345

End Endto

E2E S&A process

£2 £3 £14 £6 £9 £4£38

£10 £4

£3 £7 £4

£38 computed automatically using end-to-end aggregation across the top level

£14 computed automatically using vertical aggregation

Both objects on this level have costs computed automatically using vertical aggregation

S&A Activity : Probabilities & Tokens

S&A Activity 80:20

S&A Activity with loopback

Setting number of runs per input

S&A output

Discovering Your Efficiencies

• Employee expenses not being paid

• Investigate as is process

• Compare improved to be process

Company X

• What is it?

Make comparison between sites for:

• Audit trails• Change summaries

Compare Site Functionality

• Modelling the effects of changing processes:

o With previous copies of your libraryo As Is versus To Beo Compare costs between 2 process versions

Compare Site Functionality

• Property changes• changed numeric items• objects added or removed

• Enables comparison between sites• cost• time• activities and deliverables on the map

Compare Site Functionality

• Identify improvement opportunities

o Bottlenecks in processeso Specific areas to improve

• Significance value

o Frequency of occurrence x total effort

Improvement Launchpad

Thank you… Any Questions?

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S&A process cycle

Step 6:Use DM to create Yearly forecast

Step 1:Create DM file

Step 2:Enter values at seabed

Step 3:Synch data

Step 4:Run S&A

Step 5: E2E values in Trigger input

Simulation model

If ‘Y’ is the desired output and ‘X’ the

result of an individual component

model, vary ‘X’ and see how much ‘Y’

changes.

If changing ‘X’ has little effect on ‘Y’

then that component doesn’t need a

very sophisticated model.