Modelling Integration Process Planning in the Supply Chain Using SOP Approach
| [ P ] employee
2014
chapter in monograph
english
- planning process
- SOP planning
- process modelling
EN This chapter presents the concept behind a simulation model reflecting the functioning of a supply chain in the context Sales and Operations Planning (SOP) working in business in practice. The methodology assumed by the authors was based on: the analysis of integration models of planning processes, with a particular focus on the concept of Sales and Operations Planning, accompanied by the analysis of the surveys findings. Literature on the subject features SOP mainly as a business tool based on a collective decision making on the tactical level. The solution put forward in this article represents a systemic approach to the planning process integration. It includes the mechanisms of coordination put in place in a wide process planning structure, applied both in companies and within the supply chain. The model serves as a point of departure for further works related to the simulation of the material flow within a supply chain in the context of integrated planning. The final results of whole research will be employed in defining the impact of integrated process planning on the functioning of the supply chain, in particular on the coordination of the material flow and achieved results, as measured by economic and logistics metrics.
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