AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS FROM EMPLOYEES COLLABORATION FOR PERFORMANCE OF THE COLLABORATIVE PLANNING IN KLABIN S.A.

ABSTRACT The objective of collaborative planning is the strategical information sharing among members of supply chain for competitive advantage. However, to get competitive performance depends on the employees’ collaboration. Trying to study more in depth this theme, this article of exploratory nature and study case methodology, investigated the level of the relationship between the collaboration of the employees and the collaborative planning performance at the brazilian company of paper and cellulose, Klabin S. A. The research result, analyzed with primary data gotten by interviews, evidenced high relationship level between employees’ collaboration and colaborative planning performance. This result was corroborated by secondary data analysis, collected in official documents of the company. Although it had evidences of positive relationship, this results can not be analyzed just by the employees’ collaboration. The analysis must include other variables as training and professional valuation, managerial skills programme, techniques and tools for management to obtain a better accuracity of the relationship level in each one of them to collaborative planning performance.