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Supply Chain Planning

Managing Capacity in Complex, Volatile, Long-Lead Environment

Managing capacity during these turbulent times in a complex, volatile, long-lead time environment has proven quite the challenge. During the pandemic, sales volumes either dropped like a rock or skyrocketed with no middle ground. Most manufacturers have not been able to keep up with demand in the last year [...]

2024-01-17T17:35:33-08:00October 5, 2022|Categories: Capacity Planning, Manufacturing, Manufacturing Scalability & Resource Planning, Supply Chain Briefing, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , |
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Logistics Planning Best Practices to Drive Service & Profitable Growth

We live in a supply chain disrupted world, and there is no end in sight. It started with the pandemic as the global supply chain got out of alignment. The 'right' inventory wasn't in the 'right' place at the 'right' time to support basic needs let alone nice-to-have items. [...]
2023-09-19T17:57:39-07:00August 29, 2022|Categories: Replenishment, Distribution & VMI Planning, Supply Chain Planning|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. [...]
2024-01-21T21:34:02-08:00July 8, 2022|Categories: Demand Planning, ERP & Related Technologies, ERP & Technology, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , |
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Production Scheduling Best Practices Drive Increased Customer Service, Operational Efficiencies & Inventory Turns

Manufacturing has struggled to produce what customers want on-time without spending a fortune and tying up excess cash unnecessarily in the wrong, "just-in-case" inventory. It is a tough environment spiraling out of control with supply chain chaos.
2024-01-21T21:34:51-08:00July 8, 2022|Categories: Manufacturing, Production & Inventory Management, Production & Materials Planning, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |
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Are You Managing Inventory or Is Inventory Managing You?

As executives continue to navigate these volatile economic conditions, the focus on inventory management increases. It is especially tough to determine what to do if you don't know if sales opportunities will dramatically increase as the competition falters and consumers drive demand or if sales will tank as recession fears increase and business optimism falters.
2023-08-29T11:22:14-07:00July 8, 2022|Categories: Inventory Management, Manufacturing, Production & Inventory Management, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , |
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Supply Chain Collaboration & VMI to Get Ahead of Economic Challenges

Manufacturers are experiencing continued inflationary pressures threatening customer service and profit margins with record-breaking price increases and lack of material availability.  To add fuel to the fire, they are also starting to worry about preparing for a potential recession.
2023-09-19T21:00:34-07:00July 7, 2022|Categories: Business & the Economy, In The News, Replenishment, Distribution & VMI Planning, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Katie Couric Media: After a Year of Shortages, Here’s Why Stores Suddenly Have too Much Stuff

Lisa Anderson, a supply-chain management expert and the president of LMA Consulting Group, says if you’ve got the cash on hand now,"it’s not a bad idea to start your holiday shopping early this year."
2024-02-13T22:47:26-08:00June 30, 2022|Categories: In The News, Inventory Management, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , |
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Material Planning Best Practices to Proactively Manage Cost & Service

Since the pandemic, it has been a constant battle to ensure material availability, let alone to proactively manage cost and service. Even the most proactive and successful clients have experienced brief shortages of key materials and extended lead-times. The rest have been plagued with these issues.
2023-09-19T19:29:05-07:00June 2, 2022|Categories: Manufacturing, Production & Inventory Management, Production & Materials Planning, Supply Chain Planning|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Replenishment Planning Best Practices to Improve Service Levels, Logistics Efficiencies, and Inventory Turns

Improving OTIF and Reducing Cost and Inventory Every client wants to support growth goals while improving service levels (OTIF, on-time-in-full), operational efficiencies and inventory turns. These are timeless objectives for every planner. During the pandemic, the priorities shifted to service levels because clients struggled to keep up with dramatic [...]

2024-01-24T21:01:07-08:00May 2, 2022|Categories: Distribution & Warehousing, Replenishment, Distribution & VMI Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Trade & Logistics|Tags: , , , , |
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Navigating Current Global Business Challenges with SIOP & Demand Volatility

Lisa Anderson was interviewed by Lucie Newcomb for the podcast series “Staying Global While Staying Home”. They addressed the topic of the state of the global supply chain and strategies to successfully navigate with Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP / SIOP) with an emphasis on getting a handle on demand volatility. [...]
2024-01-24T21:04:42-08:00April 22, 2022|Categories: Demand Planning, Global Trade, Geopolitics, & Import/ Export, In The News, Interviews, SIOP Videos, Videos & Podcasts, Webinars|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |
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