Bridge the gap between sales and shop floor with defined data flows, planning horizons, and daily rituals to drive consistent execution. This playbook addresses the costly disconnect between sales commitments and plant execution in mid-market manufacturing. Designed for Plant Managers and Operations Directors, it details an operational framework that ensures seamless collaboration between commercial and production teams. The playbook includes five push-based data flows, four time horizons for production planning, five daily operational rituals, and structured exception management for common disruptions. Learn how to establish real-time shop floor visibility and formalize a commercial-operations SLA. By implementing this system, your plant will achieve improved on-time-in-full delivery against sales commitments, ensuring efficiency, clarity, and trust across teams. 5 push-based operational data flows. 4-tier production planning horizons. Daily operations rhythm and rituals. Exception management response framework Achieve on-time, in-full delivery. Establish clear sales-production alignment. Implement robust exception management This playbook is designed for manufacturing operations leaders, production planners, and supply chain managers who need a structured, step-by-step framework for improving a specific operational domain. Unlike generic best-practice guides, each HublerX playbook is grounded in deployment patterns from real manufacturing environments — covering the diagnostic steps, configuration decisions, and change management approaches that determine whether an initiative delivers measurable results or stalls at implementation. Manufacturing operations rarely fail because of a single broken process. They fail because planning, execution, and visibility are disconnected — decisions made upstream propagate downstream as firefighting, expediting, and waste. Each HublerX playbook addresses a specific point of disconnection: how demand signals translate into production schedules, how materials are committed to production orders, how quality deviations are caught before they compound, how fulfillment is orchestrated across multiple warehouses or carriers, or how operational data is turned into actionable decisions at the shift level. Playbook readers are expected to adapt the frameworks to their specific plant configuration, ERP topology, and team structure. The operating principles and diagnostic checklists apply broadly across discrete, process, and hybrid manufacturing environments. Implementation timelines and change management guidance are drawn from HublerX customer deployments spanning food and beverage, FMCG, chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, and industrial manufacturing.