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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/tg/ebm/case/cd000420" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Business assumptions</Title>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <List>
         <ListIntro>In this case, the following assumptions are made regarding the
		  business:</ListIntro>
         <ListItem>Customers and partners are expected to provide accurate input
		  for the demand planning. The update of this information is carried out on a
		  regular basis.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>You can only place components in stock and the production
		  starts when a real order comes into the sales-department. However, this case
		  deals with end products made to stock.</ListItem>
         <ListItem>The planning is used in a single-site environment. No
		  stock-level optimization for various sites was taken into account. You can
		  solve this problem through supply-chain planning, however, this type of
		  planning is not modeled in this case.</ListItem>
      </List>
   </GeneralSection>
</ManualTopic>