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What is collaborative supply chain planning?

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Collaborative planning involves sharing forecasts, inventory, and constraints in real time between customers, distributors, and suppliers in order to make joint decisions (quantities, dates, priorities) and reduce the “bullwhip” effect. Slimstock

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