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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