A weekly conference call would then drive a reconciliation of these exceptions, resulting in a jointly owned final forecast of orders. In response to this updated forecast of trade partner orders, a demand vs. supply comparison would uncover exceptions and flag supply shortages against the order demand. Based on these shortages, the orders forecast would be “constrained” by Whirlpool and fed back into the collaboration hub as a production forecast. Finally, the retailer would commit to ordering to this production forecast within a predetermined frozen forecast window.