Demand & Supply Balancing
A live shortage pulls forecast changes, firm orders, inventory, capacity, supplier commitments, and service targets into a constrained response, then routes the immediate allocation tradeoff to a planner.
Near-term shortage and allocation responseSuperprocess · Supply Chain
Demand & Supply Balancing
Design
The process loads planning signals into a constrained model, explains the shortage, branches into three scenario choices, and requires planner signoff before publishing.
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What the diagram shows
A live shortage pulls forecast changes, firm orders, inventory, capacity, supplier commitments, and service targets into a constrained response, then routes the immediate allocation tradeoff to a planner.
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modeled steps
13
modeled routes
1
human gates
Run
The animated path follows a forecast-driven shortage into the recommended reallocation response, planner signoff, committed system actions, and assumption log.
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Load signals
00:00Forecast uplift, orders, inventory, transit, capacity, suppliers, and service target loaded
Find gap
00:34Week-3 demand exceeds constrained supply for Northeast DC
Compare scenarios
00:59Reallocation, expedite, and backorder options scored
Planner signoff
01:24Planner approves allocation shift and expedite cost
Commit response
—Allocation instructions, expedite decision, customer promise, and assumptions updated
Decision
The planner sees demand delta, constrained week, scenario comparison, service impact, cost impact, and the recommended allocation shift.
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Decision required
Named authority · Planner signoff
Demand delta
+11% Northeast DC
Constraint
Week-3 supplier capacity
Service impact
Key accounts protected
Recommended scenario
Reallocate Northeast inventory
service, cost, shortage
Evidence
The assumption log keeps every input version, scenario score, planner decision, and published plan update in one record.
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Run record
Inputs, decisions, artifacts, and system writes stay together.
Signals loaded
Forecast, orders, inventory, in-transit, capacity, supplier commits, and service target loaded
Shortage explained
Week-3 Northeast demand exceeds constrained supply after firm orders
Scenarios compared
Reallocation, supplier expedite, and protected-backorder options scored
Planner signoff requested
Recommended allocation shift routed with service and cost impact
Response committed
Allocation rule, supplier action, customer promise, and assumptions record updated
Boardroom
For supply-chain leaders, the value is a faster response to shortages without hiding the service, cost, and customer tradeoffs behind the recommendation.
Operator
For planners, Superprocess explains the shortage, shows which assumptions moved, compares scenarios, and asks for one focused signoff on the recommended tradeoff.
Builder
For builders, this flow has a different shape from order recovery: it is signal ingestion, constraint modeling, scenario comparison, planner signoff, and plan publication.
Systems touched
The process connects work, people, and records.
- planning signals
- 6
- scenario options
- 3
- published exception plan
- 1
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