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Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has been around since the late 1980s. However, still only a handful of companies are successful in this cross-functional process that “integrates demand, supply, ...

Sales and operations planning is experiencing both a renaissance and a revolutionary transition, thanks to rapid technological innovation and the aftermath of the COVID-19 epidemic. Businesses today ...

My Ph.D. from Wharton is in operations research, which I received a long time ago. My graduate studies included learning about constraint-based optimization algorithms (such as linear programming) and ...

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) has long promised alignment between commercial goals and operational execution. Yet, as several experts at this year’s CSCMP EDGE conference noted, many companies ...