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How to handle multiple streams of demand for the same item in RP and SP?

in Supply Chain Planning and Collaboration

Summary:

Hello, there is a unique requirement from one of the projects lately.

So the business is using both RP and SP. RP uses min max policy method to calculate safety stock. So the regular routine monthly demand is loaded in RP for the next 24 months and the system utilizes this demand to come up with safety stock, min quantity, max quantity etc.

But every once in a while, a Special demand (like a sudden influx) flows in. For example, if the routine monthly demand is the the 600-800 quantity range for the next 24 months, we may suddenly get a demand of 5000 for the month of January 2027. Now including this occasional demand in RP will skew the safety stock and min quantity, it will dispropotionately calculate the same as average daily demand will be inflated. Hence the business wants to handle these demands for the same items in SP. Or in other words, they do not want the system to

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