Aspects of PlanningInterdependencies at Retail Shelf Management
After constituting individual planning modules, now sequential and hierarchical interdependencies along planning modules with quantitative approaches will be illustrated for retail shelf management. Sequential planning means that planning processes should consider the SC from consumer to supplier as an entire system and taking into account the interdependencies of various planning activities. Hierarchical planning describes planningprocessesthatconsiderthehierarchyofdecisionsandintegratethemwhere advantageous and feasible. Comprehensive quantitative decision support models ensure tightly aligning retail shelf supply with consumer demand and leading to efficiency gains for the entire chain. Some examples will illustrate this. The first ones describe a sequentially integrated retail logistics example, the second type hierarchicalinterdependencies.