This course examines how synchronized decision models integrate various planning processes to enable effective supply chain management and alignment across strategic, tactical, and operational levels. Participants will explore the differences in horizon, cadence, and granularity between integrated business planning, master planning, operational planning, and scheduling and execution.

The course provides a detailed explanation of how synchronized decision models operate and explains how they address the limitations of the telescopic bucket approach.

Additionally, the course explores the practical applications of synchronized decision models, highlighting how they address the distinct challenges encountered in the capital equipment, semiconductor, and consumer products industries.

The objectives for this course are:
- Discuss why planning processes differ in horizon, cadence, and granularity
- Identify the advantages of connected decision models compared to telescopic buckets
- Define frozen horizon, planning horizon, and decision horizon
- Describe how upstream and downstream handoffs occur
- Discuss how the use of daily production planning rather than only weekly production planning affects the structure of connected decision models
- Explain the role of synchronized decision models in addressing industry-specific challenges in the capital equipment, semiconductor, and consumer products industries
- Identify how the o9 platform converts target inventory and sourcing priorities to different time scales during handoffs