{"product_id":"sales-and-operations-planning-scientific-and-consultancy-maturity-models-indicating-the-degree-of-implementation-9783668439740","title":"Sales and Operations Planning. Scientific and Consultancy Maturity Models Indicating the Degree of Implementation","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tobias Wulfert\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Grin Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeminar paper from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,7, University of Münster (Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Logistik), language: English, abstract: Economic developments such as growing globalization, market uncertainty, increasing customer demands, shorter product life-cycles and rising supply chain interconnectedness as well as product complexity require companies to be even more responsive to market conditions in order to improve their competitiveness. Higher competitiveness as a whole company can only be achieved by an increased cross-functional alignment and collaboration within the company and with external suppliers and customers. Evolving from aggregated production planning and manufacturing resource planning, sales and operations planning (S\u0026amp;OP) is a business process supported by information technology (IT) that aims at aligning sales and production both intra-organizational and inter-organizational across the supply chain. S\u0026amp;OP is only seldom introduced at once in a big bang approach. Thus, companies should strive to continuously improve their intra- and inter-organizational alignment and S\u0026amp;OP process. A maturity model (MM) can help to assess the current state of the S\u0026amp;OP implementation and can direct the continuous improvement along predefined coordination mechanisms and dimensions. Further benefits of applying MMs in the context of S\u0026amp;OP should be identified during this thesis. Furthermore, a general characterization of MMs should be presented and adopted to S\u0026amp;OP maturity assessment. As MMs are published by researchers and practitioners (mainly consultancies and analysts), this thesis further aims at determining from which publishing stream a MM should be taken in order to assess the S\u0026amp;OP maturity of a company and to direct further improvements in maturity. This may also result in a proposition for a concrete MM to use.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grin Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45568647561367,"sku":"9783668439740","price":2261.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783668439740.webp?v=1767136192","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/sales-and-operations-planning-scientific-and-consultancy-maturity-models-indicating-the-degree-of-implementation-9783668439740","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}