Inventory Model with Arena -> How to?

[cringer]

Hi,

I want to modell a simple inventory model: normally distributed
Customer demand occurs over n periods -> order is fulfilled by onhand
stock or safety stock with lead time zero and to given service degree -
> production is started to fill inventory level to given policy.

How can I model this? I need some sort of customer demand with
satisfaction and an information flow to start production in order to
re-stock inventories.

Thanks for your help,
chris

[sbm...@gmail.com]

Nobody here can tell you what the demand is. You have to figure that
out for yourself. Fit a probability distribution to historic data.
There is software that will do that for you. Validate all
distributions with with line managers who know the business BTW. You
can start the system with inventories set at an average level, but
you'll want to "Warm Up" the system to stability before you start
collecting data.

SteveM