DRP Instructions:

Data & Assumptions:

The population statistics for your country are:

Population by Region:

Distribution Region Share of the Country's Total Population Vaccine Lead Time from Manufacturer

Region A 61% 1 Week

Region B 22% 1 Week

Region C 17% 2 Weeks

The capacity to vaccinate the population of a region will improve over time (as processes and experience with performing vaccinations improve). You have been provided with an estimate of each regions ability to administer the vaccine over the first six weeks. This is expressed as a percentage of the region's population.

Capacity to Vaccinate:

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6

Region A 2% 2.5% 3% 3.5% 4% 4.2%

Region B 1.5% 2% 3% 3.3% 3.9% 4%

Region C 1% 1.3% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.8%

Safety stock is equal to the lead time (i.e. either 1FWS or 2FWS) depending on the region. Vaccines will only ship in complete batches of 100,000 doses. For the startup, each location will receive 1.5 FWS of the vaccine to have on hand before the beginning of week 1. A region may not create planned order before week 1 of your DRP.

Assume that 100% of the population will want to receive the vaccine and that this is a single dose vaccine.

QUESTION

DRP for COVID-19

You work for a domestic pharmaceutical firm that has developed a COVID-19 Vaccine for a country with 211,400,708 population.You have been hired by the Federal Government of the country to work on the distribution of the vaccine to the population. To avoid regions within the country from hoarding the available vaccine supply, you have been tasked to develop a DRP that will provide factual information to aid in the distribution of the vaccine.The country has been divided into three geographic regions according to the statistics above. Make DRP plan for the first four week of the vaccinations that can be used by manufacturing to plan the volume of manufacturing needed. You will need to consider the capacity to vaccinate within each region as the independent demand. For this exercise, you simply need to consolidate the weekly demand that the manufacturer will need to produce (i.e. planned production is equal to gross requirements for the final table in your DRP)