jamalsan Aug 17, 2023 | flag | on: Lag Forecasting

My two cents: in a classical setting, manufacturing would have a frozen horizon period and use the net demand + stock policy to define its procurement and production at T0. Additionally you would have sourced more raw material than your short term demand (again safety stock in its classical sense + lot quantity from the tier1 supplier).
In each cycle the base forecast is converted in net demand for the next node (your excess material / existing stock would be subtracted from the forecast)