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The date requested by the brand owners does not often match with real data.
Considering two brands and three suppliers, both exclusive and not, a typical
scenario is described in Figure 1, where the actual production plan results not able
to guarantee the whole quantities included in the optimized product plan.
Step 6: Validation
The results of the gap analysis have been collected and refer to three scenario: the
first one without considering rush orders, while the second and the third ones take
them into account generating into the system unexpected orders equal to the 10%
and the 20% of the production plan respectively. These comparison have been
conducted to show what are the impacts if just the over-estimation of suppliers’
capacity have been considered running the optimization model at the brand
owners’ level (i.e. first scenario) and how it changes including also stochastics
events, such as rush orders (i.e. second and third scenarios).
Source : https://www.informs-sim.org/wsc17papers/includes/files/331.pdf