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What is Economic Order Quantity & its Advantages

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Bixby Cooper , 166; Sunil Chopra, Supply Chain Management: Strategy, Planning, and Operation, Global Edition: Strategy, Planning, and Operation (Boston: Pearson, 2015), 273; Heizer, Operations Management , 507. Jay & Barry Render Heizer, Operations Management , 10th edition (Boston Munich: Pearson, 2011), 507. Bowersox, David J.

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Trends 2023: Retail

Enterra Insights

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) analysts David Young and Simon Beck insist, “Rarely in business history have CEOs had more significant opportunities to capture advantages, reset industries, and anchor their legacies than at this moment in the global race to sustainability.”[8]. Footnotes. [1] 1] John Quelch and Katherine E.

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Technology Can Help Feed the World, Part 2

Enterra Insights

” Analysts from the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) add, “Over the past decade, public and private sources have dedicated impressive amounts of energy and resources to digital agriculture in developing countries.”[2] ” In Part 1 of this article, I discussed some of the background involved in the Farming 4.0 Footnotes. [1]

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Who Should Be In The Winner’s Circle?

Supply Chain Shaman

On a cold Boston winter day, I slipped into my seat on a back row in a packed conference room at AMR Research. When Gartner purchased AMR Research in December 2009, the methodology became the Gartner Supply Chain Top 25. Heavily booked and running from meeting to meeting, I was late.

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6 Things to Consider as You Plan Your 2016 Budget

Talking Logistics

Since 2009, ocean carriers have faced many uncertainties—and they’re expected to continue for the foreseeable future. You can read more on the topic in our recent white paper, Wide Open: How the Panama Canal Expansion Is Redrawing the Logistics Map [DK1] , which was written collaboratively with Boston Consulting Group. Consolidations.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 16-20, 2016)

Talking Logistics

I’m at Heathrow airport waiting to board my flight back to Boston, which is delayed by over an hour so far. Five years later in 2009, I also predicted that a leading logistics service provider would acquire a leading logistics software company. Back in May 2004, I wrote a post titled, “What If UPS Acquires Manhattan Associates?”

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Towards Causal Artificial Intelligence

Enterra Insights

To highlight that point, Tyler Vigen , a Partner at Boston Consulting Group (BCG), created a site called Spurious Correlations that highlights some interesting, if meaningless, correlations. For example, Vigen shows that, between 1999 and 2009, there was a strong correlation between U.S.