Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has long promised alignment between commercial goals and operational execution. Yet, as several experts at this year’s CSCMP EDGE conference noted, many companies ...

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As organizations grapple with ongoing economic uncertainty, many supply chain planning (SCP) leaders will face organizational resource constraints and competing business priorities. As leaders ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been around since the late 1980s. However, still ...

Sales and operations planning is a living, breathing process that naturally grows and evolves over time. Nevertheless, while it’s expected that companies would adapt their S&OP processes to meet the ...

In particular, tariffs and related trade fights can inject extreme uncertainty, complexity, and volatility into already fragile supply chain networks, with impacts extending well into the future. In ...