Supply chain disruptions and demand volatility make it increasingly difficult to balance customer needs with capacity, inventory, and profitability. In this Industrial Insights interview, Lisa Anderson discusses how SIOP helps companies anticipate changing demand, align supply, manage inventory and working capital, and make faster decisions in a volatile business environment.
Reliable data is essential to effective SIOP and better business decisions. Learn how cleansing, connecting, consolidating, and validating data can improve visibility, turn data into actionable insights, and help manufacturers strengthen customer service, planning, and supply chain performance.
Inflation puts pressure on pricing, costs, margins, inventory, and working capital. Learn how manufacturers can use SIOP to evaluate customer and product profitability, model what-if scenarios, align capacity and inventory with demand, and make proactive decisions that support profitable growth.
Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting Group, was recognized by Warner Communications as one of the Top 10 Women in Supply Chain for her leadership in helping manufacturers and distributors navigate disruption, strengthen supply chain resiliency, and improve business performance.
Supply chain disruptions require companies to plan ahead rather than react after problems occur. Lisa Anderson explains how SIOP can help manufacturers align demand, inventory, capacity, resources, customers, and suppliers to strengthen resiliency, improve cash flow, and support profitable growth.
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.
Rising inflation, geopolitical conflict, energy costs, and commodity shortages are creating additional supply chain volatility. Manufacturers should proactively evaluate customers, suppliers, inventory, capacity, and supply chain networks while strengthening SIOP and planning processes to navigate disruption and stay ahead of changing conditions.
Manufacturing and supply chain expert Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, President of LMA Consulting Group Inc., has released a special report, "Thriving in 2022: Learning from Supply Chain Chaos. We learned a lot in 2021. One thing is for certain; supply chain volatility isn't going away any time soon.
Technology integration is becoming essential as manufacturers navigate supply chain disruptions, labor constraints, reshoring, and changing customer expectations. A panel of manufacturing and supply chain experts discusses the challenges of automation and digital transformation and how companies can successfully integrate technology to improve predictability, scalability, and performance.
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.
