Logistics · The network · Element

The distance to demand

How far stock sits from where it is needed.

The part

What it is

This is the measure that connects network design to service level, and it is what determines whether a next-day promise is possible at all.

It should be measured against actual demand distribution, which shifts over time while networks do not.

The smallest level

The attributes it carries

Each attribute is one of the framework’s shared types. What a date is, and how it is written, is defined once for the whole model — the note here says what it means in this particular place.