5 Ways to Improve Processes
Stay focused on continual improvement of your processes to keep your business at the forefront of your industry. Focus on the best practices in common across improvement programs and utilize the five keys to success.
LMA Introduces Services Framework to Help Manufacturers Clarify Supply Chain Priorities
Introducing a new services framework that helps manufacturers better understand and tackle the complexity of their supply chains.
Introducing LMA Consulting’s Supply Chain Power
We are excited to announce the launch of Supply Chain Power: A Playbook for Executives — an exclusive, hands-on program designed to help C-suite leaders unlock the full potential of their supply chains
Planning & MRP Upgrades to Support Revenue Plans & Proactively Plan Capacity GalleryPlanning & MRP Upgrades to Support Revenue Plans & Proactively Plan Capacity
Best of Supply Chain, Capacity & Labor Planning, Manufacturing, Production & Inventory Management, Production & Materials Planning, Supply Chain Planning
Planning & MRP Upgrades to Support Revenue Plans & Proactively Plan Capacity
Fulfilling customer demand successfully is not as easy as it was prior to this volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. As supply chain disruptions continue to rage, planners jump through hoops, expedite, and are a bit frazzled trying to support customer requirements while meeting operational objectives, pushing back when needed on sales commitments, and addressing cost concerns.
Using AI to Improve Business Performance
As business executives contend with heightened supply chain risks and inflationary pressures, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a hot technology that can help to improve business performance.
Supply Chain Vulnerabilities, Disruptions & Risks: Proactive Plans GallerySupply Chain Vulnerabilities, Disruptions & Risks: Proactive Plans
Global Trade, Geopolitics, & Import/ Export, In The News, Media, Supply Chain (End-to-End), Supply Chain Optimization & Collaboration, Supply Chain Trade & Logistics
Supply Chain Vulnerabilities, Disruptions & Risks: Proactive Plans
There is a trifecta of supply chain vulnerabilities, disruptions, and risks creating volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) in the business environment. From supply chain vulnerabilities like the ones exposed in the Middle East war to the heightened risks that emerged with Hurricane Helene [...]
Manufacturing and Assembly: Automate, Create Value and Deliver Bottom-Line Results
Given the uncertainty of the economy creating extreme push outs and pull ins with customer orders, only those companies that can successfully deal with uncertain and changing conditions can thrive. Better utilizing ERP, quoting, and CRM systems to automate planning and scheduling processes enables quicker pivots to satisfy changing customer conditions with greater stability for operations.
How Innovation Fuels Success
There are many strategies to achieve innovation success. Here are a few that come to mind.
Disruption & Risk are the New Normal: Succeeding with Resilient Supply Chains GalleryDisruption & Risk are the New Normal: Succeeding with Resilient Supply Chains
In The News, Media, Podcasts, Supply Chain (End-to-End), Supply Chain Briefing, Supply Chain Optimization & Collaboration, Videos & Podcasts
Disruption & Risk are the New Normal: Succeeding with Resilient Supply Chains
There is substantial geopolitical risk with China. Look no further than the South China Seas. Philippine officials say Chinese forces seized two naval boats in a disputed South China Sea shoal. A few days prior, a Philippine ship and a Chinese vessel collided. It is a risky situation in the South China Seas.
Challenges, Risks & Opportunities in E-Commerce & Logistics
In attending the Southern California E-Commerce & Logistics Summit, it is clear that focusing on global logistics as a system of systems is paramount (special shout out to Fran Inman for the use of her phrase). Not one link in the supply chain can succeed on its own.