The specialties of strategic stage are summarized as;
The demand forecasting periods are very long and can continue for years.
Strategic plan can be developed as covering the whole system or it can be reduced to production departments or
products families.
Generally, it is being acted under the assumption that all the components of the system are changeable
New production departments can be opened or existing departments can be closed, capital can be increased,
strategic products layouts can be made etc.
For this reason, stochastic modeling or simulation method generally used to create a strategic plan.(Paksoy, 2005)
The classification according to field of activity is considered in 3 stages: supply, distribution center and
distribution. The following matrix shows combination of classification that are made according to time and field of
activity.