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SIOP / Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Sales Inventory Operations Planning (SIOP) provides the executive framework to align demand, supply, capacity, inventory, and financial objectives, enabling predictable revenue fulfillment, superior customer service, resilient operations, and profitable growth. Explore insights on executive SIOP leadership, cross-functional alignment, scenario planning, demand and supply balancing, integrated business planning, and decision-making. Learn how manufacturers and distributors leverage integrated planning, technology enablement, data, and analytics to improve visibility, resolve constraints, optimize working capital, and execute with confidence.

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.

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.

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.

Demand Planning Strategies for Volatile Markets

Lisa Anderson was interviewed by Lucie Newcomb for the podcast series “Staying Global While Staying Home”. They addressed the topic of the state of the global supply chain and strategies to successfully navigate with Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP / SIOP) with an emphasis on getting a handle on [...]

SIOP: The Key to Scaling Successfully

According to an informal survey of manufacturers, distributors and healthcare executives, the #1 issue that is top of mind is how to scale successfully. Our clients are growing. For example, those in the building and construction products industry are experiencing significant growth fueled by the pandemic; those in e-commerce [...]

Why the Supply Chain is Strategic & an Operations Warp Speed Example

If you aren't seeing the end-to-end supply chain as strategic, you will miss your opportunity to get ahead of the competition and grow as rapidly as you otherwise could! How quickly can you scale with increasing sales volume? [...]

Stabilizing Supply Chains: Supply Chain Brain Video

Supply chain stability has become a top priority for manufacturers and distributors navigating ongoing disruption and uncertainty. In this interview with SupplyChainBrain Editor-in-Chief Robert J. Bowman, Lisa Anderson discusses how companies can improve visibility, strengthen supplier and customer relationships, leverage technology, and use SIOP to build a more resilient [...]

Stabilizing Supply Chains in Unstable Times

Lisa Anderson, founder and president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., offers advice on how supply-chain managers can function efficiently in a time of deep uncertainty – and why's it's vital to achieve visibility of both customers and suppliers. The first step toward stabilizing the supply chain is to reach out [...]

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