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The Sales and Operations planning process has a twofold scope. The first scope is the horizontal alignment in order to balance the supply and demand through integration between the company departments and with suppliers and customers. The second aim is the vertical alignment amid strategic plan and the operational plan of a company. [2]
DIFOT – Delivery in full on time, a variant of On Time In Full; Dir – Director; disc. – Discount; DMA – Direct market access; DOE – Depending on Experience; DPO – Days Payable Outstanding; DR – Depositary receipt; DSO – Days Sales Outstanding; DSP – Delivery service provider; DTP– Desktop Publishing; DVP – Delivery versus ...
PDCA (plan–do–check–act or plan–do–check–adjust) is an iterative design and management method used in business for the control and continual improvement of processes and products. Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of ...
Growth planning is a strategic business activity that enables business owners to plan and track organic growth in their revenue. It allows businesses to allocate their limited resources toward a centered effort to adapt to changes in the industry driven by digital disruption and differentiate from competitors. The strategies and tactics ...
Business–IT alignment (B/I alignment) is a process in which an organization integrates and utilizes information technology (IT) to achieve business objectives.It is the ability of IT to produce business value which means the process of establishing an environment where both IT and business professionals are capable of working together in order to achieve common goals in any specific area of ...
The SCOR model describes the business activities associated with satisfying a customer's demand, which include plan, source, make, deliver, return, and enable. Use of the model includes analyzing the current state of a company's processes and goals, quantifying operational performance, and comparing company performance to benchmark data.
The strategic grid model is a contingency approach that can be used to determine the strategic relevance of IT to an organization. The model was proposed by F. Warren McFarlan and James L. McKenney in 1983, and takes the impact of the information technology on the strategy in future planning as the horizontal axis, and the current impact of the information technology on corporate strategy as ...
The concept of strategic alignment is significant in the context of a global business environment where activities need to be coordinated across regions and time zones. [3] Strategic alignment encompasses not only technical and functional activities, but also issues relating to human resource management (and how best to develop people's ...