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.
Demand data from
When the demand distribution was last checked, since networks outlive it.
Date shared type