Debottlenecking a Supply Chain

In this example, we have a supply chain with a mine, crusher, rail and port. We’re getting times where the crusher needs to be shutdown and we don’t know why - there is plenty of ore coming from the mine.

Firstly, create a new Driver Model called Debottlenecking.

The first thing we need to do is change the driver model from Right To Left by hitting the toggle At the top of the build screen - we want the nodes to go from left to right to simulate a supply chain.

Now go to the properties of the Model (drop down next to the model name) and set the number of periods to 14 and the reporting period to Daily. We’re basically looking ahead 2 weeks.

Lets build the mine.