Lara GuevaraSupply Chain expert (Product and Service)

Bridge This Gap or Pay For It

15 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Lara Guevara explains how founders miss supply-chain-finance gaps that tank forecasts. When freight rates or duty costs shift but your model doesn't, you get confident but wrong projections. She recommends a weekly 30-minute sync between finance and operations to catch landed-cost changes before they wreck the quarter.

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There's a supply chain conversation most founders are not having with their finance team, and that gap is expensive. Your finance team builds projection based on cost assumptions. If freight costs move and nobody updates the model, the projections become optimistic. Optimistic projections create confident decisions built on weak foundations. Your finance team needs to know if landed cost have changed, if freight surcharges are increasing, if duty structures have shifted, if emergency air freight costs have increased. Those are not operational updates, they're financial risk inputs. Schedule 30 minutes with your finance lead, ideally weekly, being updated on Lendisco's numbers, walk through what has changed. That conversation might save your next quarter.