Patrick Daly Interlinks Podcast

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. This is Part 2 of a two-part series discussion SIOP with Lisa and Diane.

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. This is Part 1 of a two-part series discussion SIOP with Lisa and Diane.

In this episode of Interlinks, we talk to Joe Kenny, CEO of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) in Ireland.Joe has been with CILT since 2019 and was appointed CEO last year. Joe has a career background in public transport, with both Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann followed by consultancy roles in management coaching, and the digitalisation of public transport.Under Joe’s leadership CILT will be hosting the Mobility and Supply Chain Summit at the Royal Marine on 28th and 29th March.This significant event will bring together experts, practitioners and academics form the worlds of Supply Chain and Logistics to discuss and debate the developments and trends in the industry, at a moment of enormous change and upheaval in the global supply chains of which Ireland in a key element.Joe fills us in on all the details the details of the event in this episode.

In this episode of Interlinks I talk to Louis Perron, who is a political consultant and founder of Perron Campaigns.Louis is based in Zurich in Switzerland and works internationally having advised two presidents, a vice president, two cabinet members, five senators, three big city mayors and a former Miss Universe.During the past years, he has worked in six countries and has won more than 15 competitive election campaigns, including three nationwide elections.

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.These are three topics that when you think it through are actually very much interrelated and which figured prominently in the recently published PwC 26th Annual Global CEO Survey as hot topics for 2023.Given that almost 40% of the CEOs surveyed globally believe that if their businesses continue on the path they are on now, then they will become economically inviable within 10 years, these are strategic issues that really require some deep consideration very soon indeed.To discuss these issues on Interlinks I am joined by:David Ogilvie, founder and principal at David Ogilvie Associates in Brisbane, Australia.Diane Garcia, founder and president of Lorraine Consulting in Phoenix, ArizonaLisa Anderson, president of LMA Consulting Group in Los Angeles, California

In this episode of Interlinks we talk to Teddy Bengtsson, the founder and director of RoundTable studio based in Jérez de la Frontera, in the Andalusia Region of southern Spain.RoundTable Studio specializes in language services for Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, which include translation, localization, and audio production services among others.RTS has two production centers - Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Porto Alegre, Brazil as well as the project management unit in Spain for extended time zone coverage.Teddy himself is Swedish, and he set up RTS in Spain almost 14 years ago now in 2011. Prior to that Teddy held several corporate roles with companies such as Oracle, Microsoft, and the Aldus Corporation and as well as Spain and his native Sweden, he has lived and worked in several other countries including Argentina, Scotland, and Ireland.Maybe that his why he is holding what appears to be a pint of Guinness in his LinkedIn profile picture!

In this episode of Interlinks, David Ogilvie Talks to Patrick Daly, Managing Director of Alba Consulting and winner of the Society for the Advancement of Consulting Corrie Shanahan Memorial Award for Advancing Consulting, Consultant of the Year 2022. Patrick is also your regular presenter of this Interlinks show.Alba Consulting is a boutique consultancy based in Dublin, Ireland since 2005 that works with clients all over the world in manufacturing, distribution and logistics services on all aspects of supply chain and logisticsPatrick has worked with clients on strategy, tactics, operations and processes in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, food, medical devices, consumer goods and third party logistics service provision in countries as diverse as Uruguay, China, India, Spain, Egypt, US, UK, Malta, Croatia and the UAE.In this conversation David explores with Patrick his background and experience and how he came to the profession of consultancy and what his thoughts are about the business of consultancy at the current time.

In this episode of Interlinks I talk to Ellen Malfliet, Head of Marketing at Ventory, a Belgium-based software company that provides innovative SAAS or Software as a Service applications and solutions for the management of field inventory.Field inventories are notoriously difficult to manage, track and control for all kinds of businesses and organisations such as utility companies, hospitals and field service and maintenance companies. Field inventories often lie outside the reach of conventional ERP systems and their warehouse management and inventory management modules and applications making it challenging to achieve last mile inventory visibility.Ventory solves this problem and in this conversation with Ellen we will discover just how it does that.

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 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 ArizonaAnd Lisa Anderson, President of LMA Consulting, joining us from the Los Angeles metro area in California.