The main task of SCP is to manage the forecast, plan and communicate, whereas it needs to be decided case by case to which amount and detail the planning part is to be undertaken.
I am perfectly happy with the minimum planning as in output planning, a wish list of which products need to be in the distribution centre at what date. Some planning departments also take over the whole of production planning (scheduling) as in scheduling which product needs to be produced at which line on what day, etc... I truly believe though that this kind of planning should remain within operations (more detail later).
Talking about communication, SCP should bundle the information which gets from the front end (sales and marketing) to operations. Nobody should be allowed to get in touch with operations but SCP.
And, SCP should manage the forecast of Sales and Marketing and allow operations (SCO) to plan resources.
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