(07-12-2015, 01:58 PM)Shepherd Wrote: Could you not just sum the values from district sales and lost sales, and put it into the demand slot in district factory. As shown in picture under. That would be good enough I think.
The problem with that is that factories can belong to multiple districts, and multiple districts and even places that are in no districts can still pull from a factory.
Just off the top of my head, your UK factory belongs to: Europe District, UK District, Europe West District, And City of London.
Paris Branch belongs to: Europe District, France District, Europe West District, and City of Paris.
So which summation I put there? If we use Europe, then you could have data from cities that are not being pulled from there. If we use UK, then you wouldn't have French sales data in the summation. If we use Europe West, what happens if you assign Canadian Branches to pull from UK? That data wouldn't be included because it's not in Europe West district. (The same issues if we use "Selected District" summation at the factory level. We have to parse shipping in every branch in the world for every factory in the selected district. I believe this is the only way to get the information properly.)
So no, that wouldn't work.
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