Scenarios

#What a scenario is

A study has one site plan and one set of marked-up areas. A scenario is one answer to the question that plan poses: a set of machines, and the assumptions you ran them under. Every study starts with a single scenario called Base, and until you add another you will not notice they exist.

#Making one

On the Fleet page, the scenario tabs sit above the totals. The + duplicates the scenario you are in, machines and assumptions and all, so you can change one thing and see what it does. The menu beside the tabs renames the current scenario, starts an empty one, or deletes it. A study can hold eight.

#What is shared and what is not

Shared by every scenario

The site plan, the scale, the marked-up racking, aisles, docks and obstructions, the client and the study itself.

Its own, per scenario

The machines and their units and shifts, and the simulation assumptions — required moves, travel distance, hours, handling and operating days.

Because the plan is shared, every scenario is measured against the same aisles. The aisle check follows the scenario you are in: swap a VNA truck for a counterbalance and the clearance verdict changes with it, on the same drawing.

#Switching

The scenario you last chose on the Fleet page is the one Site Layout, Simulation and the report show, and it is named in the panel and in the project tree so you always know which answer you are looking at.

#In the report

When a study has more than one scenario, the report gains a table near the top: each scenario with its machines, units, capacity, requirement, headroom and verdict, the open one highlighted. That table is the reason scenarios exist — it is what you put in front of a client who asked what a smaller fleet would cost them.