SUPPLY CHAIN PLANNING
The fundamental objectives of supply chain planning – excellent customer service and a well-managed cost structure – are the same for most organizations.
But every organization has a unique set of conditions that define the best route to meeting those objectives. To get started in the right direction, decision makers need to consider these basic questions:
- Is the organization centralized or decentralized?
- Is the supply chain global or regional?
- Are the company’s products seasonal? Is demand consistent?
- How are supplies and finished goods shipped – air, sea, rail, truck?
- Does the enterprise purchase finished goods or control an end-to-end supply chain including manufacturing?
- Who owns the demand forecast – Sales or Operations?
The answers to these questions and others help define the best demand-supply planning processes, technologies, policies and metrics to achieve an organization’s business goals.
Align and Coordinate Operational, Sales, and Financial Plans with Sales and Operations Planning
Use S&OP as a framework to manage and coordinate the different planning activities required to run a business. These may combine financial planning, long-term supply chain planning, new product introduction, demand management, supply planning and collaborative planning with customers and suppliers to develop optimized cross-functional plans and quickly resolve demand-supply imbalances and misalignments across the plans.
Optimize End-to-End Demand-Supply Management
Within a S&OP framework, each process supports a category of strategic, tactical, and execution-level decision making. With consideration of the context of the supply chain being planned, determine the right approach, policies, metrics, and tools to support these decision-making processes.
- Demand Planning
- Network Design and Sourcing
- Inventory Planning
- Supply Planning
- Capacity Planning and Finite Scheduling
- Order Promising
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