Anupam joins as a sales manger of a company dealing with garment manufacturing. Being professional in his approach,he knew that without good planning he will not be able to organise or perform any other managerial function affectively or efficiently. Only on the baside he will have to prepare sales plan regularly on weekly, monthly, quarterly and half yearly basis. While preparing the sales forecast, he undertakes intellectual thinking, involving foresight visualisation rather than guess work and he has to make sure that all these, planning activities coincide with the purpose for which business is being carried out.
In the context of the above case identify the various features of planning highlighted in the above para by quoting lines from it.