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Sales and Operations Planning isn't as easy as it sounds, especially when you have to include your critical supply chain partners into the planning process.
For this assignment, perform a web search for companies that had problems in their S&OP development or execution.
Write of summary of the events. Then, depending on the details provided by your source, discuss real problems (or if no details were provided, your thoughts on potential problems) that may arise with the components of S&OP that we discussed in this class (at a minimum: forecasting, aggregate planning, MRP, inventory management). Your paper should use APA format and be between 1 and 2 pages of text – 12-point font, double-spaced. Ensure you include a title page, a very short abstract and a reference page
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