Sales & Operations Planning: how to coordinate sales and production to ensure service level

To serve international markets efficiently, it is necessary to align industrial processes with their specific needs, so that the expected margins (from promising markets) are not lost in industrial systems that cannot handle ever-increasing complexity.

Beginning with the business development plans of macro geographic areas, it will be shown how to reconcile sales forecasts with production plans.
. The Sales & Operations Planning approach enables developing the logistics/production arrangement between area commercial and production.

The Sales & Operations Planning approach allows you todevelop the logistics/production agreement between sales and production area, to:

• better meet market demand ►increased service level and greater punctuality;
• optimize production flows ► targeted investments, better inventory management, efficient use of facilities and resources.