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Executive Summary

There are four major supply planning threads which are distinct from planning runs.
We also cover how a rough schedule or rough plan differs from a detailed schedule and S&OP, as well as the deployment plan, redeployment plan, and the timing of various supply planning threads as well as the differences between the threads.

Introduction
There is often a good deal of confusion as to what are the primary planning threads for supply planning. Therefore, I have spelled them out in this article.
Different threads make up the supply planning portion of the supply chain process. The …

Executive Summary

This is the page of the RCC or Replenishment Calculation Competition, and it explains the design of the competition.

Introduction
The majority of supply chain planning vendors make claims about the benefits of their software. However, what is nearly unheard of is to have an objective way to compare the output of supply planning systems. This competition changes that by having different software vendors process a data file to compute a future replenishment plan.
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#1: The Input: The Data Set the Vendors Process
Here is important information about the data set.
Where Does the Input …

… Lead times are, of course, also a general term that can apply to non-supply chain topics. For example, a product plan results in calculating a series of lead times for completing various stages of a project and the overall product duration.

Lead times are normally not shown graphically in supply planning systems. However, if they were — they would look something like a project plan. That is, lead times are a sequence of dependent durations with relationships. Manufacturing can’t commence upon material until the material arrives, and the material can’t arrive until the time has passed from the …

Executive Summary

How can one model the effect on inventory from a change in the stocked locations?
We cover two approaches.

Introduction
We received this question, so we thought we would place the answer and the question into an article.
Question #1

Is there an industry standard way to think about the number of source points impact on Case Fill Rate? For example, we are considering reducing our stocking points for a volatile customer like Amazon, to just 2 DC’s (east & west coast) versus our normal 6 regional DC’s. Wondering if this consolidation of inventory and demand variability …