S&OP has served business leaders over the past 20 years to make timely decisions about balancing sales (demand) with supply (manufacturing capacity and inventory) with the focus primarily on plan, source, make, and deliver a product or service to consumers. In the next 10 years, how consumers shop and receive goods will transform endto- end supply planning, the decisions business leaders will need to make, and how those decisions are made.

From Issue: Five Trends That Will Impact S&OP Over the Next 10 Years
(Fall 2016)

image
Five Trends That Will Impact S&OP Over the Next 10 Years