Manufacturers and distributors invest significant time and resources in forecasting demand, balancing supply with demand through SIOP (Sales, Inventory & Operations Planning), and developing supply chain strategies.
Through ASCM leadership, Harvey Mudd executive roundtables, and student-led manufacturing projects, LMA Consulting Group helped connect manufacturers, educators, and future leaders. These collaborative efforts strengthened workforce development, operational improvement, and innovation across the manufacturing community.
In this video testimonial, a reader shares how I've Been Thinking: Turning Everyday Interactions into Profitable Opportunities serves as a practical resource for continuous business improvement. Through simple, easy-to-digest insights, the book helps leaders identify opportunities hidden in everyday interactions and apply them to improve business performance.
Stay focused on continual improvement of your processes to keep your business at the forefront of your industry. Focus on the best practices in common across improvement programs and utilize the five keys to success.
Like almost every manufacturing sector, the building and construction products industry generally worked through their backlog, focused on margins, and experienced an overall drop in customer demand last year, yet expect a positive year ahead.
Kathleen McEntee and Lisa Anderson join host, John Tulac to discuss commerce, collaboration and community. Listen to the discussion on how these trusted advisors and experts interact with each other to drive business success in the region.
Innovation is essential to thriving in today's volatile business environment. Drawing on lessons from QC Manufacturing and real-world experience, Lisa Anderson explains how innovation in people, culture, processes, and products drives growth, profitability, resilience, and long-term success.
Manufacturers should work to reduce materials, energy consumption, and inefficiencies to improve their carbon footprint and achieve the triple bottom line.
Since packaging is typically 10-40% of the retail price of products, there is no doubt it adds up to a relevant factor in product cost and waste.
As companies are searching for ways to successfully navigate these turbulent times, the best ones are achieving a win-win focus on the customer and costs. Since the pandemic, there has been a heightened awareness of the customer experience as companies struggled with supply chain disruptions, delays, shortages, and the lack of resources.
