Capacity planning is critical as manufacturers navigate volatile demand, extended lead times and supply chain disruptions. Learn how leaders are addressing capacity constraints through nearshoring, productivity improvements, workforce strategies, technology and rapid scaling.
Global volatility and supply chain disruptions are reinforcing the need for greater control over manufacturing. Learn how reshoring, nearshoring, strategic capacity and stronger supply networks can improve resilience and position companies for future opportunities.
In this episode of Supply Chain Chats, Lisa Anderson talks about impacts of inflation and supply chain disruption in the global supply chain. She uses fertilizer as an example and talks through how inflation and supply chain disruptions are interrelated and walks through the increase in the price of oil and gas to China’s decision to stop exporting to the Russia-Ukraine war and the potential rail strike. [...]
A tentative agreement may have averted a nationwide rail strike, but supply chain disruptions remain a significant concern. Lisa Anderson discusses why ongoing labor, geopolitical and economic pressures will continue to challenge supply chains.
A potential nationwide rail strike highlights the continued fragility of the supply chain. Lisa Anderson discusses why labor challenges, geopolitical pressures and ongoing disruptions will continue to create supply chain risk.
Cross-organizational alignment is essential to supply chain success. Lisa Anderson explains how SIOP brings sales, operations, finance and other functions together to improve communication, data-driven decision-making, customer service and profitable growth.
NewsNation WGN interviewed Lisa Anderson about the supply chain issues that have plagued the west coast ports and that are now showing up as backups on the east and gulf coasts as well. We discussed why this is happening and what can be done.
Lisa Anderson, manufacturing and supply chain expert and president of LMA Consulting Group comments that supply chains are becoming more sophisticated and are ever changing.
Supply chain disruptions continue at a rapid pace as geopolitical tensions, transportation bottlenecks, inflation and global shortages create new risks. Proactive companies are responding by expanding U.S. manufacturing, reshoring and nearshoring, diversifying supply and investing for long-term resilience.
A strike at the UK’s largest container port adds another challenge to an already fragile global supply chain. Lisa Anderson discusses how port congestion and shifting freight volumes are creating ripple effects across West Coast, East Coast and Gulf Coast ports.
