Supply Chain Management and Advanced Planning by Hartmut Stadtler Christoph Kilger & Herbert Meyr

Author:Hartmut Stadtler, Christoph Kilger & Herbert Meyr
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg

Collaborative planning can be applied both downstream and upstream, i.e. it may connect planning processes with customers (e.g. sales planning) or suppliers (e.g. procurement planning). According to the planning horizon long-term, medium-term and short-term collaborative planning may exist. Further, collaborations can be distinguished by the objects that are exchanged and collaboratively planned, such as purchase orders for specific items (materials) or maintenance services at certain intervals of time.

A very well-known approach for supply chain collaboration is Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment (CPFR) . It consists of a sequence of steps and corresponding managerial guidelines (see VICS 2004) while collaborative planning software support is not a main issue. Another approach is Collaborative Development Chain Management (CDCM), which follows the ideas of simultaneous engineering and focuses on joint development of products by several partners with the use of web-based computer systems (see Becker 2001).

In Sect. 14.1 collaborative planning and the objects of collaboration are introduced by an example. Also, related definitions are discussed. Section 14.2 shows different types of collaborations, then Sect. 14.3 presents the phases of a generic collaborative planning process. Finally, Sect. 14.4 gives an overview of APS-technology that supports collaborative planning processes.

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