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Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues Open access
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Received: 2021-12-23  |  Accepted: 2022-02-15  |  Published: 2022-03-30

Title

Managing new product launch & development in the dynamic emerging market: A case study of Saudi Arabia


Abstract

This study aims at analyzing the mechanism of New Product launch and Development (NPLD) in two large Saudi Arabian organizations Almarai and Aujan, which are dedicated to the production and marketing of fast-moving consumer goods. The research has opted to utilize the Saudi Arabian established mechanism as a research tool for exploring NPDL methods with a special emphasis on the role of sales and marketing management acumen. In this case study, the information is collected from the employees in two gigantic companies, wherein they are involved in the NPLD process. There is a significant difference between the two companies in their functional adequacy and the efficiency and effectiveness of the NPLD mechanism. It has also an objective to do an analysis of the two companies in respect of scope and treatment in launching NPLD coping with the challenges surfaced in the wake of changing situation due to globalization. Despite the fact, that both companies adopted a formal Stage-Gate process, Aujan Beverage implemented this process more effectively than Almarai, perhaps owing to Aujan’s greater expertise in using Stage-Gate methodology. This study emphasizes the importance of the role of sales and operations planning regarding collaborative demand forecasting. There is no doubt that leadership plays a pivotal role in ensuring the analysis, review, and improvement of NPLD process.


Keywords

new product development, operations planning, mechanism, Stage-Gate, enterprise resource planning, fast moving consumer goods


JEL classifications

M13 , M21 , M31


URI

http://jssidoi.org/jesi/article/951


DOI


Pages

317-329


Funding

The author would like to thank the Deanship of Scientific Research at Umm Al-Qura University for supporting this work by Grant Code: (22UQU4330082DSR01).

This is an open access issue and all published articles are licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Authors

Rahman, Mohammad Naquibur
Umm Al-Qura University, Mecca, Saudi Arabia https://uqu.edu.sa
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Journal title

Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues

Volume

9


Number

3


Issue date

March 2022


Issue DOI


ISSN

ISSN 2345-0282 (online)


Publisher

VšĮ Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Cited

Google Scholar

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