The role of sales and operations planning (S&OP) is widely acknowledged to be a key business process for balancing supply capabilities with demand (Tuomikangas and Kaipia, 2014) and a common practice in manufacturing companies across most, if not all industry sectors (Kreuter et al., 2021a; Its focus and purpose are "the matching of supply and demand in the medium term by providing a process for the vertical alignment of business strategy and operational planning and execution, and for the horizontal alignment of demand and supply plans" Maintaining this position is however challenged by the need to connect planning to daily supply chain execution and to respond to the sudden and vast changes in the planning environment, combined with huge advancement leaps in technology, enabling the capture of multiple and disparate sources of data and rapid processing of knowledge from these changes.
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