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Spreadsheets – A Look Back

Kinaxis

In fact, the concept of a spreadsheet on a computer goes back to 1961, when Professor Richard Mattessich, from the University of California at Berkeley, pioneered the development of computerized spreadsheets for use solely in business accounting. They helped launch the personal computer, or PC, as a viable business tool.

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Sweetgreen: Sustainable Supply Chains in Farm-to-Table Restaurants

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

Sweetgreen is a restaurant that was founded in 2007 in Washington, D.C Some of them include: dual sourcing, distributor controls, information sharing, and forecasting. . Because sweetgreen’s menu is seasonal and highly dependent on produce availability, demand forecasting is a little tricky but extremely important.

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Balance and Segmentation – What the Election Can Teach Supply Chain

Kinaxis

Source: © 2007 AMR Research, Inc. | Page 5. Figure 2: Forecast Accuracy vs Sales Volatility. Source: Gilliland, Michael; Sglavo, Udo; F ocus on Forecasting: Worst Practices in Business Forecasting , 2010. There’s not a lot of blue dots, except in the Northeast coast and California coast. See Figure 1.

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Why Is It So Hard to Find Good Help These Days?

Material Handling & Logistics

Further, if one does a Google search on data science groups in private industry, numerous large industry groups formed just since 2007 appear. This problem starts with sales forecasting, which in e-commerce is even more difficult than at the store-level.