Integrated Master Planning and Demand Fulfillment in Multi-Echelon Supply Chains: Partial vs. All-or-Nothing Fulfillment
Modern supply chains differ in lead times, bottlenecks, and demand volatility. Advanced Planning Systems conventionally decouple Master Planning (MP) and Demand Fulfillment (DF) hierarchically, which improves tractability but ignores critical interdependencies between material availability, capacity utilization, and delivery promising. We propose an integrated MP‑DF model, formulate it as a Minimum‑Cost Multicommodity Flow (MCMCF) on a … Read more