| # Business assumptions In this case, the following assumptions are made regarding the business: 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. 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. 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. |