Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) process is decades old, but many companies are looking to revise current processes. AMR Research has benchmarked high-performing companies and found that S&OP was one of the most important best-practice processes in their operational success. Technology is available today to support the process, but don’t let the once over-hyped promises of supply planning scare you away, says AMR. The SOP process is broken down into the following stages: No formal process exists, largely imbalanced SOP, which there exists in which there is a large number of disjointed, imbalanced process.”]