How to Deal with Conflicts Between Marketing and Operations

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Shapiro recognized several reasons for the conflicts between marketing and operations teams: CAPACITY MANAGEMENT AND LONG-TERM SALES PROJECTIONS: Operations teams are constrained in their ability to flexibly adjust the (long-term) manufacturing planning to short term changes in demand factors and marketing forecasts. Short term changes in the physical delivery of goods promised by the marketing team come at the expense of the organization as a whole. PRODUCTION SCHEDULING AND SHORT-TERM SALES PROJECTIONS: As marketing is not directly involved in developing production plans, due to their close interaction with customers it is a challenge for marketing to develop precise forecasts. DELIVERY AND PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION: It is also a challenge for the operations team to ensure alignment between the sales / marketing forecasts and inventory availability. Ensuring the maximum quality while producing a large variety of goods in a limited amount of time is difficult. As a result of time (...) Read more? Sign up for free

		C.L. Kappagomtula Professor, Malaysia
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		Vivek Hattangadi Management Consultant, India
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		Javier Elenes Business Consultant, Mexico
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		Y Srinivas Rao Manager, India
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		srinivas Lecturer, India
	Collaboration Comes to Rescue Probably collaboration among different entities in (...)

		Carl-Henric Nilsson Professor, Sweden
	Processes Instead of Functions I have worked with operations management as a rese (...)

		Stephen lane Director, United Kingdom
	Market Orientation If marketing and operations' OBJECTIVES are proper (...)

		Omondi
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		jorge anibal hoyos hoyos Manager, Colombia
	Top- Down and Bottom- Up Coordination is the Key The real problem starts at the shareholders group, (...)

		Dr. Vishal Dilip Chavan Professor, India
	Leadership with Vision Helps to Diminish the Conflict Visionary leadership is very important to deal wit (...)

		edward sevume Sweden
	Alignment of Business Activities I have dealt with this problem one time and what I (...)

		Sabine Pitcher Manager, United Kingdom
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		Paula Kokare Project Manager, Switzerland
	Shapiro's Guidance to Avoid Conflicts Between Marketing and Operations Thank you all for your valuable contributions and (...)

		Kurt Ludikovsky Consultant, Austria
	Third Element: SALES Interesting discussion. First of all I think a mai (...)