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Integrated Business Planning: A New Narrative for an Old Process

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A whitepaper by Coldrick, Ling, and Turner (2003) entitled “Evolution of Sales & Operations Planning – From Production Planning to Integrated Decision Making” presented the five-step process – shown in Figure 2 – which is still the foundation of most planning processes today, even though the scope of S&OP has expanded into IBP.