Internal Supply Chain Planning - Organisation and Methods

Multi-site production planning has become a typical field of a Advanced Planning Systems years. Centralised planning methods are recommended for intra-organisational planning, decentralised planning methods are suggested for inter-organisational planning. However, the organisational development over the last few years is different from the described trends. Autonomous units and organisations with few hierarchies are often part of current and future organisational concepts. The analysis and combination of these conflicting developments are the main tasks of multi-site planning in future.