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At the APICS International Conference, Lisa Anderson discusses how the Amazon Effect is reshaping manufacturing and distribution. Learn why speed, innovation, collaboration, and Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning (SIOP) are essential to meeting rising customer expectations and driving supply chain success.
4 EXCEL is a LMA Consulting Group proprietary process to help businesses engage executives and employees to execute integrated plans that improve overall performance
It seems like a great time to share what is important as we head into a new year, new quarter or even new day. There is always opportunity to take that critical step towards success.
Integrating marketing in the SIOP process is crucial for aligning demand planning with business growth, customer engagement, and supply chain efficiency
Talk with your employees about the future. After all, how will they be able to build the right skills if they have no idea what is needed in the future?
In the last few years, I have helped several clients design and implement SIOP.
SIOP, also known as S&OP, can do the heavy lifting of the budgeting process by filling in the blanks on operations and inventory line items. SIOP, also known as S&OP, can do the heavy lifting of the budgeting process by filling in the blanks on operations and inventory [...]
Being a systems pragmatist is critical in not making assumptions about your processes, but rather review every production step to uncover any issues that were not being addressed. Being a systems pragmatist is critical in not making assumptions about your processes, but rather review every production step to uncover [...]
One of those frequent and frustrating problems with growth can be space. Who has heard, "I've run out of space! What should we do?". Unfortunately it is not uncommon.
