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IncEntCost

Cost Related Statement

Syntax samples

INCENTCOST <expression>

INCENTCOST 15

INCENTCOST -15

Description

Enables you to increment the cost (positively or negatively) of the current entity by a given amount. Use this function to add to the entity’s actual, accumulated dollar amount.

Please Note: When working with new entities created through a ROUTE statement, use INCENTCOST to assign an initial cost to entities. Initial entity cost defined for an entity in the cost module applies to entities entering the system through a scheduled arrival, the CREATE statement, or the ORDER statement.

Valid In

Operation and Move logic.

Components

<expression>

The positive or negative change to the value of cost.

Example

The logic below allows you to add an initial cost to an entity implicitly created through the ROUTE statement. In the following example, a Pallet of entities, PalletA, arrives at Unload_Loc where workers unload entities called Box every 20 seconds until the pallet is empty. ProModel determines the number of Boxes unloaded from PalletA by the value of PalletA’s attribute, Qty_Attr. In Move Logic, the statement “IncEntCost 10” adds an initial cost of 10 dollars to each implicitly created entity, Box.

Process Table

Routing Table

See Also

GETCOST, GETRESRATE(), INCLOCCOST, INCRESCOST, and SETRATE.

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