Advanced sales and operations planning framework in a company supply chain
Traditional sales and operations planning (S&OP) focuses on balancing company supply and demand, and is utilised utilised to align plans that support a business-strategic goal. An obvious drawback of previous decision models is their lack in considering the supply chain network.
This article proposes a new global S&OP planning framework to integrate four supply chain stages of demand, purchasing, production and transportation with different planning strategies. Model applicability is tested by a real life case. Several simulation scenarios are conducted to evaluate
the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed model and heuristics. This study adopts the integrated method as a decision support tool, thereby enhancing coordination between financial and physical activities.
Keywords: heuristics; sales and operations planning; supply chain planning
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Department of Business Administration,National Central University, Jungli City, Taiwan
Publication date: 01 March 2012
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