Thriving in 2025 outlines three pivotal strategies for navigating today’s fast-changing business environment. Lisa Anderson highlights the key actions leaders must take to stay competitive, build resilience, and stay ahead of industry shifts in the years ahead.
As we head into 2025, global supply chains continue to experience disruption—from geopolitical shifts to changing customer expectations. In this Supply Chain Byte, Lisa Anderson of LMA Consulting Group outlines a practical roadmap for manufacturers and distributors that want to not only survive but thrive.
- Mitigate global supply chain risks: Relying on outdated supply chain models is no longer viable. Reevaluate, revamp, reshore, and expand your manufacturing capabilities. It’s time to invest in domestic manufacturing, explore regional partnerships, and diversify your supply chain to support agility and business continuity.
- Reactive to Proactive: Be forward-thinking. Lisa stresses the importance of rolling out and/or strengthening your SIOP (Sales, Inventory, and Operations Planning) process to improve sales forecasting, align demand with supply, and support smarter, forward-looking decision-making.
- Upgrade planning & supply chain processes & systems: Leveraging modern ERP systems, MRP, advanced planning tools, and artificial intelligence will separate industry leaders from laggards. Better system utilization leads directly to better results—faster response times, reduced costs, and greater scalability.
If you want to lead in 2025 and beyond, these actions aren’t optional—they’re essential.
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LMA Consulting Group works with manufacturers and distributors on strategy and end-to-end supply chain transformation to maximize the customer experience and enable profitable, scalable, dramatic business growth.