Retailer B had longer order lead times and direct deliveries from Whirlpool factory distribution centers to the retailers’ regional distribution center. Owing to this the process was tailored to focus on store sales forecast collaboration, with four-week out commits to supply against the forecast. In parallel with these supply commits, the retailer committed to order against the supply commit quantity. In addition, the retailer’s ordering system was tied to the CPFR hub, allowing order quantities to default to the collaboratively set volumes. Narrower tolerance levels were used on the forecast mismatch alert flags, because of the relatively fewer collaboration points.