Effective replenishment planning helps manufacturers and distributors improve customer service while controlling inventory and logistics costs. By aligning demand, inventory positioning, transportation, supplier capabilities, and replenishment strategies, companies can increase inventory turns, strengthen working capital, and improve supply chain responsiveness.
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.
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.
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.
LMA Consulting Group looks ahead to 2022 with a focus on helping manufacturers and distributors improve SIOP, supply chain planning, ERP, customer service, profitability, and growth.
A modern ERP system is essential to support changing customer requirements and scalable growth. Learn how ERP, automation, AI, and predictive analytics can improve business performance.
Businesses face continued supply chain disruption and rapid change in 2022. Lisa Anderson shares how proactive executives are strengthening resilience, aligning demand and supply, and preparing for growth.
In working with clients across multiple industries including industrial equipment, food and beverage, building and construction products and healthcare products, there is no doubt that clients using a SIOP (sales, inventory and operations planning) and integrated business planning process are pulling away from the competition.
