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Better Ways to Address Trade-Offs with Supply Chain Optimization

Logistics Viewpoints

And if the tools don’t allow flexibility for the planner using them, the resulting rigidity can limit their utility and planners resort to manual estimates. We can think of optimization to parameterize the heuristics, or in lay terms, optimization guides the forest and heuristics guides the trees. Why supply chain optimization matters.

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Making Cents Out of Demand Sensing

Logility

Sometimes demand planners focus too much on forecast accuracy and miss seeing the forest for the trees. The value generated by improved forecast accuracy comes from how that improvement is used to enable cost reductions, synchronize production and enhance customer service. And now back to that crux.

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Digital Transformations Are Not Just for the Big Guys

Logistics Viewpoints

Case in point: Brook Furniture Rental has invested in new technologies to undertake a true digital evolution, significantly improving customer service and reducing operational costs along the way. Brook also serves business-to-business (B2B) customers in multiple industries. That, Mr. Sanders asserts, is best-in-class for the industry.

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Cognitive Computing: Getting Clear on Definitions

Supply Chain Shaman

The decision support technologies that we use today–price management, trade promotion management, network design, supply chain planning, transportation planning, supplier risk management–are on the cusp of redefinition through new forms of analytics. There are many powerful use cases ;but use caution, they are evolving.

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Biobased Economy GROWS in 2018

NC State SCRC

Biobased Products Industry. There are some great highlights of the report, that suggest that the Biobased Products are gaining a foothold and growing significantly since the last time we published this report. Biobased Products Industry in 2016. Biobased Products Industry in 2016. Million in the U.S.

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COVID19: An Update on Chicken, Meat, and Paper Products

NC State SCRC

I spent some time discussing this today with Joe Fisher from WRAL, and also spoke to a few of my colleagues in the retail food industry, as well as my colleague Ronalds Gonzalez in the Department of Forest Biomaterials. The most important takeaway is that we are not have a shortage of food or paper products! Meat Products.

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USDA Announced Release of BioBased Economy Study Completed by NC State and Duke University

Supply Chain View from the Field

Bioproducts Industry”, is the first to examine and quantify the effect of the U.S. biobased products industry from an economic and employment perspective. biobased industry is generating substantial economic activity and American jobs. biobased products industry from an economics and jobs perspective. .

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