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Plan optimization must be moved from individual efforts to a joint collaborative process. Functional areas such as refinery planning, logistics planning, supply, sales planning, and trading functions impact each other when the plan changes. Functions must not only manage planning in their own area, but also optimize according to changes made upstream or downstream. Providing functional perspectives that interact with each other makes rapid collaborative planning possible. The planning workspace information sources also has its components such as inventory forecast, price forecast, demand forecast, trading plan, exchange plan, and stock transfers.

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