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Using SIOP to Navigate Global Disruptions

Global disruptions can quickly impact supply, costs, capacity, and customer service. By using SIOP to evaluate changing conditions, risks, inventory, capacity, and customer priorities, manufacturers can make proactive decisions, strengthen supply chain resilience, and position themselves to capture growth opportunities.

The Business Journals: Supply Chain Issues – What’s keeping the C-level up at night in 2022?

In this webinar hosted by The Business Journals and sponsored by Oracle NetSuite, Lisa Anderson joins industry leaders to discuss the supply chain challenges keeping executives up at night and strategies for building resilience, driving growth, and thriving amid ongoing disruption.

Do You Have Suppliers or Partners?

During supply chain disruptions and shortages, strategic partners are more likely to prioritize one another than transactional suppliers and customers. Learn how stronger supplier partnerships, active backup sources, collaborative planning, and becoming a customer of choice can improve supply continuity, strengthen resiliency, and support profitable growth.

Supply Chain Disruptions Driving Prices Up

The news is full of stories of rising prices propelled by supply chain disruptions. For example, the cost of lumber is creating extreme price increases for building and home upgrades. Supply Chain Dive noted that the cost of pallets could go up by 400% according to United Fresh Produce Association. On this same note, an NBC affiliate [...]

Is JIT Dead?

Several clients are wondering, “Is JIT Dead?”. Definitely not. Just-in-time inventory planning is a best practice inventory management process. If you are literally ordering just-in-time from China and expecting to not experience disruptions without strategic stockpiles, capacity or agility built into the picture is not smart. On the other [...]

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 [...]

Manufacturing Expert, Lisa Anderson, Recommends Stabilizing Supply Chains to Capture Opportunity

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – July 31, 2020 –  Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert,  Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., recommends that manufacturers and distributors increase the focus on stabilizing supply chains. LMA Consulting Group works with manufacturers and distributors on strategy and end-to-end supply chain [...]

SAC: Diversification Now is Both Doable and Desirable

CLAREMONT, CA—Diversification makes good business sense during COVID-19, provided that the rationale and focus for doing so is clear, according to The Society for the Advancement of Consulting® (SAC). With a clear focus, customers will get enhanced value from products and services, as your business avoids the panic mode [...]

Manufacturing Expert, Lisa Anderson, Predicts Proactive Approach to Demand and Diversification of Supply is Key to Future-Proofing Manufacturing and the Supply Chain

CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – May 27, 2020 –  Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert,  Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, president of LMA Consulting Group Inc., predicts that a proactive understanding of customer demand and diversification within the supply chain will prevent a next round of guffaws as the effects of COVID-19 [...]

Product Supply Strategy

Forget 'If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It' All bets are off in these unprecedented times. What worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. Take a fresh look at your product supply strategies. Should We Make or Buy? Many executives outsourced when it was the popular and often a smart [...]

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