Sales & Operations Planning is the process by which we bring together all the plans for the business (Customers, Sales, Marketing, Development, Manufacturing, Sourcing, and Financial) into one integrated set of tactical plans S&OP gives management the ability to direct its business to achieve a sustainable competitive advantageSales and Operations Planning (S&OP) is an offshoot of production planning and owes its evolution to practitioners of operations management ItThere must be tight alignment between the operating plans and the financial plans through appropriate unit of measure conversions into currency S&OP is crossfunctional and collaborative It involves, at a minimum, Sales/Marketing, Operations/Supply Chain, Product Development, Finance, and General Management
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