Yes, as someone who used to work in that field for a bit in the customer side, I have to agree. Thisbis an operational topic, and those involve a ton of phone c

Yes, as someone who used to work in that field for a bit in the customer side, I have to agree. Thisbis an operational topic, and those involve a ton of phone calls, people all over the place at multiple companies using multiple unconnected systems, a fair share of Excel and e-mail. Some planning algorithm like this might work, for sure. But onpy if it is included in whatever software being used for this kind of planning. Otherwise, it is a nice academic excercise at best.