RightChain Planning

What is RightChain ™ Planning? RightChain ™ Planning (RCP) is a formal and regularly repeating planning process connecting, optimizing, aligning, and reconciling the plans of traditionally independent business activities including sales, finance, operations, and logistics. The objective of RCP is to maximize the competitive, financial and service performance of the enterprise by continuously optimizing the deployment of enterprise resources including capital, equipment, inventory, facilities, people, and systems. RCP seeks to identify and implement the optimal mix of revenue, expense, and capital to ensure long-term growth in shareholder value. RCP allows the enterprise to better predict and more effectively respond to changing competitive, market, technological, and regulatory conditions. RCP is differentiated from S&OP as follows: RCP typically incorporates more dimensions of financial performance and has even heavier participation from finance. RCP includes more aspects of strategic plans and initiatives. RCP includes more aspects of product, customer, and supplier development & portfolios. RCP includes more aspects of risk management and heavier participation from business risk management. RCP utilizes more sophisticated modeling with larger modeling data bases.

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