Costs

The Costs tab rolls up the money side of a run: what each activity, resource, and entity cost, and where the cost went.

What it shows

• Activity cost: the processing and per-entity cost at each activity, and how many entities it handled.
• Resource cost: for each resource, the cost of time in use, idle, on break, in downtime, and overtime, and its total.
• Entity cost: the total cost each entity type accumulated, split into waiting and working.

A donut and a bar chart summarize where the cost is concentrated, so the most expensive parts of the process stand out.

Getting numbers to appear here

For costs to appear, first set them on the model. Costs in a model explains how the five authoring surfaces compose into these figures, and each has its own article:

• Entity Cost: an initial value and a waiting rate
• Activity Cost: a per-entity charge, a per-minute charge, and the value classification
• Resource Cost: hourly or busy and idle rates, cost per use, and overtime
• Queue Cost: a flat charge on leaving a queue
• Cost on a route: a charge per move