Sales and operations planning: responding to the needs of industrial food producers
Journal article, 2014

This paper investigates sales and operations planning (S&OP) at four Scandinavian industrial food producers in order to explore how the use of S&OP might help leaders to deal with the challenges set by the planning environment. Variables connected to the product and market, e.g., frequency of new product development, customer service levels, and supply uncertainty, were identified as particularly critical for the S&OP process. It was found that there is great potential for S&OP in the food industry, foremost to cope with the imbalances between demand and supply and to create prerequisites for a stable production process.

Food industry

Planning environment

Sales and operations planning

Author

Linea Kjellsdotter Ivert

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Logistics & Transportation

Anna M K Fredriksson

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Logistics & Transportation

Mats Johansson

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Logistics & Transportation

Production Planning and Control

0953-7287 (ISSN) 1366-5871 (eISSN)

Vol. 26 4 280-295

Subject Categories

Production Engineering, Human Work Science and Ergonomics

Driving Forces

Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Transport

Production

DOI

10.1080/09537287.2014.897769

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11/5/2018