Customer Attributes

Demand

Sheets on which it appears

Customer Product Data

Possible inputs

Any number greater than 0 (0 means there is no demand)

How it affects the model

The amount of demand for each customer, location, product and period combination. This amount should be fulfilled at least in the given Minimum Fulfillment Rate.

Lead Time

Sheets on which it appears

Customer Product Data

Possible inputs

Any number greater than 0 (0 means not defined)

How it affects the model

Lead time is maximal amount of driving time between your last resource and your customer. It is basically the time taken to complete your last mile and it does not consider the times in the rest of your network.

Selling Price

Sheets on which it appears

Customer Product Data

Possible inputs

Any number greater than 0 (0 means not defined)

How it affects the model

Selling Price for a customer, location, product, period combination. It is considered as a revenue.

Customer

Product

Demand

Selling Price

Inbound Volume

Revenue

Customer

product_1

3

5

3

3*5=15

Minimum Fulfillment Rate

This attribute is only available in the Network Design Advanced and in the Tactical Planning Modules.

Sheets on which it appears

Customer Product Data

Possible inputs

Any number between 0 and 1 (0.5 means 50%)

How it affects the model

This amount should be fulfilled at least in the given Minimum Fulfillment Rate. When you want the model to take into account, the Allow Unfulfilled Demand on Control Panel.

Minimum Lead Time Adherence

Sheets on which it appears

Customer Product Data

Possible inputs

Any number between 0 and 1 (0.5 means 50%)

How it affects the model

This attribute determines what percentage of demand for a given customer, location, product, period combination must be fulfilled within the lead time. For Infeasibility Analysis it can happen that you need to relax both “Lead Time” and “Minimum Lead Time adherence” to get the model feasible.

Customer

Product

Demand

Minimum Lead Time Adherence

Volume within lead time

Volume outside the lead time

Customer

product_1

10

0.6

6

4