Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena. Ediciones UPCT
Abstract
[ENG] Collaborative Planning (CP) can be defined as a joint decision making process for aligning
plans of individual Supply Chains (SC) members with the aim of achieving a certain degree
of coordination (Stadler, 2009). Coordination means identification and classification of
existing interdependencies (Li et al., 2002). Different coordination processes manage different
types of interdependencies. Coordination should be considered different from integration in
that where coordination takes the target for granted, integration often involves determining
this target simultaneously with the aligning of allocation decisions (Oliva and Watson, 2010).
Typical features of supply chain coordination processes include demand planning (DP),
supply planning (SP), available-to-promise/ capacity-to-promise (ATP/CTP), manufacturing
planning, distribution planning (DP), etc. Generally, the execution of process depends on
proper information management. Coordination mechanisms in supply chain should be tools
by which, every member of a supply chain can achieve more benefits. Thus, organizations
need to develop strategically aligned capabilities not only within the company itself, but also
among the organizations that are part of its value-adding networks. Additionally, processes
are now viewed as assets requiring investment and development as they mature. Thus the
concept of process maturity is becoming increasingly important as firms adopt a process view
of the organization
