By Nancy Marino
Economic, political, and environmental challenges combined with the growing complexity of global operations have made S&OP and the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) a top corporate priority. Indeed, the potential is tremendous in the most volatile business climates – this process, which aligns merchandising, sales, planning, R&D, operations, finance, and other functional areas of the organization, into a single line of sight, from plan to performance to profit.
