Strategic Procurement of Resources for Transportation: Architectural and Methodological Issues

The article discusses an architectural and methodological approach to the implementation of strategic procurement of transport resources, which form the aggregate capacity for operational planning and the subsequent implementation of the transportation plan in the operational interval for companies that transport goods for their own needs: industrial and trade - Retail and Wholesale. The future need for transport resources is determined because of finding an option that satisfies all divisions of the company that ensure the achievement of target KPIs. The S&OP method is considered with a description of the key tasks that it allows to solve in transport resource planning. The component architecture is given, showing potential applications of the S&OP methodology in the general concept of strategic resource planning.