Hierarchy
SAP_BS_FND (Software Component) SAP Business Suite Foundation⤷
CA-EPT-POC (Application Component) Process Orchestration for Built-In Processes⤷
BS_POC_TEST (Package) Process Orchestration - Test Reports
Basic Data
| Data Element | POC_SIMULATION_TIME_OFFSET |
| Short Description | Simulation Offset Time |
Data Type
| Category of Dictionary Type | D | Domain |
| Type of Object Referenced | No Information | |
| Domain / Name of Reference Type | NUMC8 | |
| Data Type | NUMC | Character string with only digits |
| Length | 8 | |
| Decimal Places | 0 | |
| Output Length | 8 | |
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Further Characteristics
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| No BIDI Filtering |
Field Label
| Length | Field Label | |
| Short | 10 | Offset |
| Medium | 15 | Time Offset |
| Long | 20 | Time Offset |
| Heading | 10 | TimeOffset |
Documentation
Definition
Defines an amount of time that is added to an activity at the start of a process simulation. The simulation offset time is measured in seconds.
Use
If no offset time is defined, activites are executed in rapid succession when the process simulation is run. As a result, meaningful duration key performance indicators (KPIs) cannot be calculated. Therefore, defining a simulation offset time is useful for testing duration KPIs.
Note
The simulation offset time is always calculated, for each activity, from the start of the simulation rather than from the previous activity. Therefore, the offset time for an activity within a given simulation is greater than the offset time for the previous activity.
Offset times are calculated and passed to the process observer as if they were real. The system does not really wait the given time. For this reason, very long offset times can be specified (for example, a week or 604,800 seconds).
Dependencies
Example
In Process A, a simulation offset time of 120 seconds is defined.
Activity Offset
1 0
2 120
3 240
4 300
History
| Last changed by/on | SAP | 20110908 |
| SAP Release Created in | 731 |
