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Getting Started with AI in Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Instead of searching for and reading multiple help documents, the planner can simply ask for help in natural language and receive an answer that is a single, synthesized explanation of those sources in Portuguese (even if the documentation is in English).

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Wake-Call for Added Resiliency Within Healthcare Supply Networks

Supply Chain Matters

Background On July 19, a devastating tornado with reported winds of upwards of 150 miles-per-hour devastated an area in eastern North Carolina. million square foot Pfizer life-saving drug production facility located in Rocky Mount, North Carolina. Pfizer drug manufacturing facility.

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The Greenest Mile: Planning’s Role in Supply Chain Sustainability

Logistics Viewpoints

We must plan, source, make, and deliver differently for supply chain sustainability. These examples address the source, make, and deliver areas of supply chain. Similarly, increasing the efficiency of planning and reducing waste will lay a firm foundation for greener sourcing, manufacturing and delivery. Buffering creates waste.

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Challenges Facing Local Foods in North Carolina

Supply Chain View from the Field

Food hubs are one channel to fill this gap, as food hubs manage aggregation, distribution and marketing of source-identified food products to satisfy wholesale, retail, and institutional demands.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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The Promise and Peril of Generative AI for Supply Chains

Logistics Viewpoints

The first use case is MIT professor Yossi Sheffi’s idea for using generative AI to monitor all possible sources of risk for a given supplier to mitigate any disruptions. While there is endless speculation, from my reading two supply chain-specific opportunities intrigued me.

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Why Supply Chain Convergence is Critical to Greater Agility and Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

Many factors need to align for an organization to be able to source materials, produce a product and put it in the hands of customers. Of the professionals surveyed, 59% saw the gap between procurement/sourcing and supply chain to be a major disconnect, and the most pressing pain point.