Incentives quality -based systems

In a global production structure with IT-based information flows that substitute one-to-one relationships, forecasting and planning processes need to be brought to a new level. As mentioned above, this requires clear standards for their execution, support from IT systems, and - most importantly - dear and visible accountability for process quality. More spedfically, the forecast accuracy has to be an element of the performance review and incentive system for the product managers and sales force. 

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