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Corporate Delivery Flow Models

Corporate delivery flow models specify the weighting percentages used to determine how many product units will be delivered in each delivery period within a season. Account managers use these models when creating assortment plans.

You can create several corporate delivery flow models to represent all the typical product delivery patterns your customers request. For instance, you might create a corporate delivery flow model named Three Drop Front Loaded for customers who request the following delivery pattern for an upcoming season: 50 percent of the products delivered in the first delivery period and 25 percent each in the second and third delivery periods. You might create another model, called Three Drop Even, for customers who want to receive the same percentage of their order in each of three delivery periods.

Account managers use corporate delivery flow models to specify the delivery pattern for each product in an assortment plan. For example, if a customer wants to place their order of baseball shoes into the first of three delivery periods in an upcoming season, the account manager would select the Three Drop Front Loaded corporate delivery flow model from the example above for each baseball shoe in the account's assortment plan. If the same customer prefers an even spread of soccer shoe deliveries for the same three delivery periods, the account manager would select the Three Drop Even corporate delivery flow model for all soccer shoes in the assortment plan.

NOTE:  You can also create account-specific delivery flow models to meet the requirements of individual customers. For more information, see Creating Account-Specific Delivery Flow Models.