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Preparing for Demand Shocks

There is such a wide range of shocks that can happen to your supply chain and to the demand for what you’re making. Can you ever truly prepare? What kinds of projections are most useful, and how can you set yourself up for success if you do have the ability to anticipate a surge in demand?
2024-07-15T17:13:18-07:00July 12, 2024|Categories: Demand Planning, In The News, Media, Podcasts, Supply Chain Planning, Videos & Podcasts|Tags: , , , , , |
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How to Avoid Supply Chain Disasters: Inc. From the Ground Up

Lisa Anderson, a supply chain expert and consultant who founded LMA Consulting Group, says projecting future demand is paramount when facing a demand surge.
2024-07-06T21:39:13-07:00July 6, 2024|Categories: Demand Planning, In The News, Media, Supply Chain (End-to-End), Supply Chain Optimization & Collaboration, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , |
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What is Your Demand Plan? Sales Strategies for Success

Sales strategies and customer programs are pivotal to developing a demand plan in support of sales revenue growth goals. SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning) will translate these sales forecasts into operations and supply plans for review with cross-functional teams to ensure the sales plans are fulfilled successfully and efficiently.
2024-06-06T08:26:31-07:00April 30, 2024|Categories: Demand Planning, Supply Chain (End-to-End), Supply Chain Optimization & Collaboration, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |
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SIOP / S&OP: Proactive Approach to Maximizing Production Output & Capacity

Clients are struggling to keep up with customer's changing requests. Order backlogs remain relatively high (depending on the industry), but customers are pushing orders out at the last minute, pulling orders in without notice, adding future potential orders, and changing requirements on the fly. Production is scrambling to keep up.
2024-06-05T17:37:17-07:00January 5, 2024|Categories: Capacity & Labor Planning, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Scalability & Resource Planning, SIOP / S&OP, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Automate, Digitize, and Thrive in the Supply Chain

The world has never experienced a labor shortage quite like the one we are experiencing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment growth will average .3 over the next decade; however, labor participation will drop from 62.2% to 60.4%.
2024-06-16T21:16:57-07:00January 4, 2024|Categories: ERP & Technology, ERP Selection & Upgrades, In The News, Manufacturing, Media, Robotics & Automation, Supply Chain Technologies|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Forecasting in Flux: Importance of Supply Chain Flexibility

Lisa Anderson of LMA Consulting Group was quoted in a Harvard Business Review report about supply chain volatility and uncertainty that are part of the new normal.
2024-03-29T23:25:48-07:00October 27, 2023|Categories: Demand Planning, In The News, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , , |
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Case Study: Strategies to Successfully Navigate Inflation

As originally published in Brushware Magazine on Sept/ Oct 2022. Inflation continues to plague the world with escalating prices across a spectrum of products and services. The price of oil and gas has continued to rise and supply chain challenges persist, creating inflationary pressures across the board. Even though [...]

2024-01-17T17:25:28-08:00November 9, 2022|Categories: Business & the Economy, In The News|Tags: , , , , , |
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Using ERP & Related Technologies to Automate, Digitize & Thrive

Manufacturers utilize less than 20% of the full functionality of their ERP systems. But the key question is, why does it matter? In today’s inflationary and supply chain disrupted business environment, manufacturers need to automate and digitize to ‘do more with less’ and thrive during these volatile times. One important way to achieve this goal is to further leverage your ERP system where it will make a difference.
2024-05-29T10:02:42-07:00September 6, 2022|Categories: Better Use of ERP / Systems, ERP & Technology, In The News, In the News Highlights, Supply Chain Technologies|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Upgrade Demand Planning Processes & Software to Navigate Economic Challenges

During times of volatility including inflation and recession, forecasting future sales becomes even more vital than it is during regular business cycles. Emerging from the pandemic, the global markets have experienced rising costs and significant demand. In the U.S. [...]
2024-05-29T10:08:36-07:00July 8, 2022|Categories: Demand Planning, ERP & Technology, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Technologies|Tags: , , |
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Do You Need Software to be Successful with S&OP?

As clients become interested in S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning), also known as SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning) to get in front of customer requirements while simultaneously increasing margins and profits, executives want to know if software is required to support S&OP success. Is Software Required to Support [...]

2024-06-16T21:12:42-07:00June 2, 2022|Categories: Data Analytics & Business Intelligence, ERP & Technology, SIOP / S&OP, Supply Chain Technologies|Tags: , , , , , |
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