Improving Supply Chain Planning Processes in a Manufacturing Company

Today's world is in transition from the VUCA-world invented in the 1970s to the BANI-world, where uncertainty is moving into a stage of anxiety caused by constant change and often the inability to influence it, leading to unobvious and irreversible consequences. Thus, supply chain complexity and volatility have become the “new normal” of the business environment. In order to ensure the sustainability of activities in the market and retain a leading position in the competition in conditions of uncertainty, companies must direct a lot of effort into improving internal processes, in particular planning, on the accuracy and quality of which directly depends on the ability to meet the needs of consumers in full. The present qualification work is devoted to the research of possibilities of improvement of planning processes in the brewing company. In order to achieve the set goal, the following tasks were identified: To analyze the business and financial and economic focal company and determine its position in the market; Analyze the logistic activity of the company and identify problems in the planning processes; To study theoretical and empirical researches devoted to improvement of processes and practices of realization of planning in conditions of unstable demand; To develop a procedure for improvement of planning processes; Evaluate economic efficiency, identify possible risks and conduct sensitivity analysis of the proposed solution. As a result of the work, a step-by-step procedure for improving the planning processes of a brewing company was developed through the introduction of a modern solution, which is an adaptation of the DDMRP technology taking into account the specifics of the focal company's activities. The developed procedure can be of practical significance for use in other organizations as a basis for the formation of the planning system, as well as become the basis for further empirical research in the domestic market. The economic efficiency of the implementation of the pilot project has been proved. The research consists of 150 pages, 21 tables and 62 figures. When writing the work 100 domestic and foreign sources of information were used.