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Originally published on Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast on 3/12/2024

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The awareness of the importance of international supply chains has grown in recent years, not just among the business fraternity, but more widely in the media, among politicians and ordinary citizens as well. Because of the multiple crises that we have endured such as COVID, Brexit, War in Ukraine and geopolitical tensions with China people now understand much better that it is the correct functioning of these complex supply chains that keeps the show on the road.

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In this episode of Interlinks I am joined again by my colleagues from the supply chain special interest group of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting to discuss the issues of energy security and geopolitical change and how they are influencing the thinking of business strategists and decision makers as the look to design and configure the supply chains of the future.

Joining me today are:

• Dr. Karen Wilson-Starks, President and CEO of Transleadership of in Colorado Springs in the state of Colorado
• Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting, from the Los Angeles metro area in California
• Diane Garcia, president of Lorraine Consulting from Phoenix Arizona

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Originally published on Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast on 6/26/2023

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In this episode of Interlinks, Patrick Daly was joined again by his colleagues from the supply chain special interest group of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting to discuss the issue of how and why so many businesses are overlooking the fundamentals of business as we emerge from a period of turbulence characterized by pandemic war and supply chain realignments into an uncertain future.

The panel includes:

• Dr. Karen Wilson-Starks, president and CEO of Transleadership in Colorado, Springs, the state of Colorado in the US.
• Antonio Zrilic, president of Logiko Supply Chain Consultancy in Zagreb, Croatia. 
• Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting joining us from the Los Angeles metro area also in the US. 

Originally posted on Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast on 6/19/2023

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Originally published on Interlinks, March 15, 2023.

In this episode, and the next, of Interlinks we talk to Lisa Anderson and Diane Garcia of LMA Consulting Group in Los Angeles, California who are co-authors of a new book titled SIOP: Creating Predictable Revenue and EBITDA Growth.

SIOP or Sales Inventory and Operations Planning is a management approach in which Lisa and Diane are expert and I look forward to finding out from them what it is, how it works, what its benefits are and what the pitfalls are to avoid in its implementation.

Between them Lisa and Diane have many years experience helping their clients to develop, set up and implement SIOP across multiple sectors. 

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In this episode of Interlinks, I’m joined again by my colleagues from the supply chain special interest group of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC) to discuss some of the big issues facing businesses in 2023, namely sustainability, talent, and automation.

Originally posted on Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast on 3/3/2023

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Listen to find out how some of the top supply chain consultants around the world are working with their clients to help them deal with rising inflation and interest rates.

In this episode of Interlinks, I am joined again by my supply chain consultant colleagues from the Supply Chain Special Interest Group of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting, to talk to them about how they’re helping clients at this time to cope with inflation and higher interest rates, that are affecting companies operating in Europe, America, and Australia alike.

My guests are:

• David Ogilvie, founder and principal consultant at David Ogilvie Associates, in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• Diane Garcia, President of Lorraine Consulting based in Phoenix Arizona and
• Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting, joining us from the Los Angeles metro area in California.

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Originally published on Interlinks, February 16, 2023.

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In this episode of the Interlinks podcast I am joined again by my colleagues from the Supply Chain Special Interest Group of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC) to review some of the events and shocks that have impacted supply chains during 2022 and how these events sit within the context of the overarching long-term trends that are driving supply chain strategies such as demographics, technology, and the energy transition among others.

Shocks and events such as the war in Ukraine, the pandemic and Brexit, among other may feel like they have appeared out of nowhere, but these events are taking place within the context of overarching trends that are unmoved by these short-term shocks and events. This provides us with another perspective on how to react and devise successful supply chain strategies as we look to the future.

Joining me in this episode of the show to discuss all of this are:

• Diane Garcia, president of Lorraine Consulting based in Phoenix Arizona
• Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting, joining us from the Los Angeles metro area in California.

Originally published on Interlinks, November 22, 2022.

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Conversation with my supply chain consulting colleagues from the Society for the Advancement of Consulting’s Supply Chain Special Interest Group, Lisa Anderson from Los Angeles, California and Antonio Zrilic from Zagreb, Croatia discussing inflation busting strategies that companies can adopt to ameliorate the effects of rising inflation.

Originally published on Interlinks, August 30, 2022.

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In this episode of Interlinks, we’re going to check in on some of the major global regions, namely Europe, North America and Asia Pacific, to see what is going on and what is topical in supply chain in summer 2022.

We’re also going to touch on what companies are doing more generally to overcome the challenges posed by inflation and the shortages of human resources that are generalized across the major regions at the moment.

To discuss these topics, I’m joined by two of my supply chain consultant colleagues from the supply chain special interest group from the Society for the Advancement of Consulting (SAC), Lisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting Group from the Los Angeles Metro area and David Ogilvie, principal at David Ogilvie Consulting in Brisbane, Australia.

Originally published on Interlinks, August 15, 2022 .

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