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.
LMA Consulting Urges Businesses to Restructure Supply Chains Now
Lisa Anderson calls on manufacturers, distributors and supply chain leaders to take immediate action to restructure their supply chains as geopolitical tensions, tariff threats and global risks escalate.
How a Resilient Supply Chain Reduces Cyberattack Risk
With cyberattacks and security threats on the rise, it’s more important than ever for manufacturers and supply chain leaders to address vulnerabilities in their supply chains to reduce their risk of disruption
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 Trade & Logistics, Supply Chain Transformation, Optimization & Collaboration
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 [...]
Hurricanes, Common Sense Strategies & Predictive Planning Strategies
Hurricane Milton has blown through Florida. In addition to continuing havoc since it occurred close behind Hurricane Helene, it has created further supply chain disruptions that will have ripples throughout the globe.
Manufacturing and Assembly: Automate, Create Value and Deliver Bottom-Line Results GalleryManufacturing and Assembly: Automate, Create Value and Deliver Bottom-Line Results
Better Use of ERP / Systems, ERP & Technology, In The News, Manufacturing, Media, Process Improvement, Supply Chain Technologies
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.
Taking Advantage of Automation in the Supply Chain
According to the WorldMetrics.org report, 89% of manufacturers believe automation is key to increasing productivity. More importantly to increasing profitable growth, the report also finds that automation reduces manufacturing lead time by 75%.
Lisa Anderson Publishes Mid-Year Special Report
Download Lisa's mid-year special report, FutureScape: Crafting Tomorrow's Supply Chain Today.
The Value of Data in Fueling Profitable Growth
Companies are overwhelmed with data. There is ERP related data, global supply chain data, world economic data, industry and market data, customer and supplier data, email communications, and the list goes on.
Market Selloff, Volatility & Whether Businesses are Prepared
You would have to be hiding under a rock to not hear that the market sold off. The S&P 500 sold off 3%; the Dow tumbled 1,000 points, and tech company leaders lost a combined $1 trillion intraday (recovering almost half later in the day).