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Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, known as the Strongest Link in Your Supply Chain® and President of LMA Consulting Group Inc., published an article about cross-organizational alignment that was picked up by CSCMP.

“The success of the supply chain requires the participation of every function within the organization. From customer service and sales to production and finance, every department, every discipline has a stake in the supply chain,” Ms. Anderson commented. To be transparent, flexible and in touch with
customer needs, there must be communication within the organization.

“Sales has as critical a role in the supply chain as Operations. After all, Sales has its ears to the ground in assessing and understanding customer needs. Yet, if Sales does not communicate with Operations, forecasts and production could be off. If sourcing and finance are not involved, there could be profitability issues. The bottom line is every single department is interconnected with another within the supply chain. And the key is communication and data. Communication so that each area has what they need to do their job and data because data is critical to making decisions,” she said.

Ms. Anderson and her firm use the SIOP process to help organizational alignment. “Processes provide consistency. Once there is consistency, accuracy improves. And with processes in place, data integrity improves. The supply chain is complicated and has many moving parts. Yet, breaking the parts down so that stakeholders have visibility allows them to work as a team to deliver desired outcomes,” she concluded.

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Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, known as the Strongest Link in Your Supply Chain® and President of LMA Consulting Group Inc., published an article on improving and protecting supply chains by initiating cross-organizational alignment, and it was picked up by Today’s Medical Developments.

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In thinking about our LMA blog, I finally found time to revamp the categories so that it is easier for folks to find articles on topics of interest. It isn’t really something I could outsource since there were too many considerations and scenarios to explain. I got on a roll in the last 10 days and spent countless hours categorizing while watching TV etc., and I’m thrilled it is 90/10 complete!

There are over 1800 blog articles, and so categories definitely help. Let’s start with hot topics:

• SIOP/ S&OP – Sales & Operations Planning
• Data & Business Intelligence
• ERP & Related Technologies
• Inflation strategies
• Reshoring/ Nearshoring
• Supply Chain Disruption
• Demand Planning
• Supply Chain Planning – Capacity, Production, Replenishment, Materials, Inventory, Logistics, VMI, etc.

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Lisa Anderson, manufacturing and supply chain expert and president of LMA Consulting Group discusses how the pandemic was a wake-up call to the importance of better visibility in the supply chain in an article that was picked up by Today’s Medical Developments.

“The pandemic was a wake-up call to the importance of visibility. While supply chains were starting to be stretched pre-pandemic, many simply broke when crushed by supplier and delivery challenges. Manufacturers realized they needed better visibility,” Anderson says. “Manufacturers set up dashboards for a more global picture of the many moving parts. This allowed them to see suppliers upstream and make adjustments.  First, for incoming materials and sources of supply. Were they produced, in transit, or stuck at a port? Then, for finished products. When was it scheduled for production? Was it waiting for shipment or in transit to a DC or customer? When was delivery expected? All are critical to the supply chain.”

The more each supply chain partner can gain visibility, the better they can plan, and the more resilient they will be with changing conditions. Supply chain visibility includes the manufacturer, supplier, logistics providers, and customer. This is especially helpful to logistics providers (the furthest downstream) when production locations are switched.

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Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert Lisa Anderson, MBA, CSCP, CLTD, known as the Strongest Link in Your Supply Chain and President of LMA Consulting Group Inc., publishes a press release about protecting client supply chains by focusing on supply chain visibility and driving the SIOP (Sales Inventory Operations Planning) process which was picked up by CSCMP.

“‘The pandemic was a wake-up call to the importance of visibility. While supply chains were starting to be stretched pre-pandemic, many simply broke when crushed by supplier and delivery challenges. Manufacturers realized they needed better visibility. Manufacturers set up dashboards for a more global picture of the many moving parts. This allowed them to see suppliers upstream and make adjustments. First, for incoming materials and sources of supply. Were they produced, in transit, or stuck at a port? Then, for finished products. When was it scheduled for production? Was it waiting for shipment or in transit to a DC or customer? When was delivery expected? All are critical to the supply chain,’ Ms. Anderson commented.

The more each supply chain partner can gain visibility, the better they can plan, and the more resilient they will be with changing conditions. Supply chain visibility includes the manufacturer, supplier, logistics providers, and in many cases, the customer. This is especially helpful to logistics providers (the furthest downstream) when production locations are switched. All are equal partners in the process.”

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“There is no doubt that tech manufacturing wants to move out of China. They cannot afford the risk of continued disruption to supply, and they want to gain better control over their ability to serve customers,” stated Lisa Anderson, manufacturing and supply chain expert and president of LMA Consulting Group.

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Lisa Anderson, manufacturing and supply chain expert and president of LMA Consulting Group is interviewed by KUSI’s Lauren Phinney on”Good Morning San Diego” to discuss the baby formula shortage and the supply chain issues.

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Lisa Anderson, Supply Chain Expert and President of LMA Consulting Group discusses the solution to make the supply chain more flexible.

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Near-shoring and re-shoring are a new reality,” comments Lisa Anderson Manufacturing and Supply Chain Expert. Every manufacturer needs to have products close to their customers (near-shoring) to be on top of changes in demand. The way to do that is to have closer proximity to operations (re-shoring) where you have better control in several areas.

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