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Supply Chain Planning

Supply Chain Planning provides the integrated framework to align demand, supply, capacity, production, inventory, and distribution, enabling predictable revenue fulfillment, superior customer service, resilient operations, and profitable growth. Explore insights on SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning), demand planning, capacity and resource planning, production and materials planning, inventory planning, and network strategy. Learn how manufacturers and distributors leverage integrated planning, technology enablement, data, and analytics to improve visibility, optimize working capital, resolve constraints, and execute with confidence.

Improving Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning

In this Industrial Insights podcast interview, Lisa Anderson discusses Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP), end-to-end supply chain management, demand planning, and the strategies manufacturers can use to improve service, profitability, and scalable growth.

Production Planning Best Practices to Recover Capacity

Every production planner has the challenging job of managing a complex set of conflicting priorities - meeting customer requested ship dates and new product trials, supporting manufacturing and logistics performance objectives, and addressing finance's objectives as it relates to inventory levels and cash flow.

Taking Control of Customer Success Using SIOP (S&OP)

SIOP helps manufacturers take control of their end-to-end supply chains by aligning customer demand with capacity, inventory, suppliers, and resources. Learn how a proactive SIOP process can improve predictability, strengthen customer service, and provide the operational flexibility required to support profitable, scalable growth.

How SIOP Powers Growth During Supply Chain Disruption

SIOP helps manufacturers align demand with capacity and supply so they can capture growth opportunities instead of losing revenue. Learn how better planning improves scalability, customer service, predictability, and profitability.

WBSRocks: Business Growth with ERP and Digital Transformation

Lisa Anderson discusses how SIOP and directionally correct forecasting help companies align stakeholders, improve predictability, and support business growth without getting lost in unnecessary planning detail.

Creating Predictable Revenue with Demand Planning Best Practices

Predicting unpredictable demand starts with the right questions. Learn how demand planning and SIOP can improve predictability, align resources, and support profitable growth.

Prescient Strategy & Manufacturing Resilience Using SIOP (S&OP)

Manufacturing resilience requires the ability to adapt as customer needs and supply conditions change. Learn how SIOP can improve predictability, scalability, and profitable growth.

Shortages Impacting Revenue & Forecasts

Supply chain shortages can distort historical sales and make forecasting more difficult. Learn how to build a directionally correct demand forecast to improve customer service and support growth.

Clients Using SIOP Pulling Ahead of the Competition: SIOP Case Study

In working with clients across multiple industries including industrial equipment, food and beverage, building and construction products and healthcare products, there is no doubt that clients using a SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) and integrated business planning process are pulling away from the competition.

Snowflake: Just-in-Time for Real Life

"The minority of clients that are proactive were using just-in-time principles, but in a way that works during the pandemic," said Lisa Anderson, President of the LMA Consulting Group. "As a decision-maker, I need to have a certain amount of safety stock, but I will replenish that as we take orders, and we'll replenish those reserves [...]

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